The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity : essays in postcritical scriptural interpretation
"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."--BOOK JACKET
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vii, 378 pages ; 20 cm.
9780809134250, 080913425X
28414778
The "literal reading" of biblical narrative in the Christian tradition / Hans W. Frei ; abr. and ed. by Kathryn Tanner
Toward a postliberal theology / George Lindbeck
Plain sense and applied meaning in rabbinic exegesis / David W. Halivni
The turn to commentary in ancient Judaism / Steven Fraade
Extra-Biblical exegesis / Michael Fishbane
The uses of Scripture in classical medieval Judaism / Moshe Greenberg
Maimonides, Aquinas, and Ghazali on naming God / David B. Burrell
Sánchez' critique of Authoritas : Converso skepticism and the emergence of radical hermeneutics / José Faur
Jonathan Edwards : piety and its fruits / John E. Smith
Acts 2:1-13, the truth of an unlikely tale / Paul M. Van Buren
A meditation on developing hopeful virtues / Stanley Hauerwas
Introductory comments to Buber's "Toward a new German translation of Scripture" / Steven Kepnes
Toward a new German translation of Scripture / Martin Buber ; translated by Alan J. Swensen, ed. by Steven Kepnes