The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Postcritical Scriptural Interpretation

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Peter Ochs
Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2008年5月22日 - 388 頁
The scholars who have contributed to this volume of essays are Jewish and Christian thinkers who, without melding their different religious traditions and scholarly methods, have developed complementary responses to what they believe is wrong with contemporary biblical scholarship in Judaism and Christianity. The purpose of this collection is to draw attention to the similarities among these responses and to the possibility that they may contribute to a family of postcritical methods for interpreting the scriptural traditions. The postcritical scholars employ current methods of critical, scientific inquiry to clarify the language, the historical contexts, and the didactic messages of the biblical traditions. They do not, however, find these methods sufficient. They argue that the biblical traditions communicate to their practitioners some rules of action that cannot be deciphered within the terms set by canons of critical reason that emerged in the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. Rather, among the Bible's unique rules of action are the principles for interpreting the traditions themselves. Postcritical scholars attempt to identify these rules of interpretation, producing what editor Peter Ochs has come to term "postcritical Scriptural interpretation." It is neither strictly modern nor premodern. This form of inquiry emerges in the dialogue that is now unfolding between a contemporary family of scholars and their scriptural traditions.

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Preface
1
THE POSTCRITICAL TURN
53
Toward a Postliberal Theology
83
RABBINIC PROTOTYPES
105
PRAGMATIC TRENDS
193
Maimonides Aquinas and Ghazali on Naming
233
Converso Skepticism
256
Piety and Its Fruits
277
POSTCRITICAL HOMILIES
293
A Meditation on Developing Hopeful Virtues
308
Introductory Comments to Bubers Toward a
327
Edited by Steven Kepnes
334
Contributing Authors
358
Index of Additional Names and Works Cited
369
Index of Topics
375

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Peter Ochs is Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Yale University and an MA in Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is author of over forty journal articles and reviews in theology and philosophy and has previously edited a volume enitled Understanding the Rabbinic Mind: Essays on the Hermeneutic of Max Kadushin.

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