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Anthony Thiselton here brings together his encyclopedic knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide a splendid interdisciplinary textbook. After a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics, Thiselton moves into modern times with extensive analysis of scholarship from the mid-twentieth century, including liberation and feminist theologies, reader-response and reception theory, and postmodernism. No other text on hermeneutics covers the range of writers and subjects discussed in Thiselton's Hermeneutics. Book jacket.
Synopsis
Anthony Thiselton here brings together his knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide an ideal textbook for students and interested general readers. Few other texts on hermeneutics exist in the market today and none offers the range of writers and subjects offered here. Inspired by the needs of students, Hermeneutics will be a helpful resource in any classroom.
Table of Contents
The aims and scope of hermeneutics -- Hermeneutics in the context of philosophy, biblical studies, literary theory, and the social self -- An example of hermeneutical methods : the parables of Jesus -- A legacy of perennial questions from the ancient world : Judaism and the ancient Greeks -- The New Testament and the second century -- From the third to the thirteenth centuries -- Reform, the Enlightenment, and the rise of biblical criticism -- Schleiermacher and Dilthey -- Rudolf Bultmann and demythologizing the New Testament -- Some mid-twentieth-century approaches : Barth, the new hermeneutic, structuralism, post-structuralism, and Barr's semantics -- Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics : the second turning point -- The hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur -- The hermeneutics of liberation theologies and postcolonial hermeneutics -- Feminist and womanist hermeneutics -- Reader-response amd reception theory -- Postmodernism and hermeneutics -- Some concluding comments.