Truth, beauty, and goodness in biblical narratives : a hermeneutical study of Genesis 21:1-21 / Krzysztof Sonek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonek, Krzysztof.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 395.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 395

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth--Biblical teaching.

Truth.

Aesthetics--Biblical teaching.

Aesthetics.

Bible. O.T. Genesis XXI, 1-21--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A modern reader studying biblical narratives encounters various literary approaches and ways of understanding interpretive concepts. Hence an attempt to put forward a comprehensive hermeneutical model of reading biblical narratives. Such a model should aim at a synthesis of various approaches, and show how they are interrelated.The book proposes a hermeneutical theory which uses modern approaches to literary texts for the exegesis of biblical narratives. The book discusses three spheres of the reader's knowledge about reality: immanent, narrative, and transcendental. The move from immanent to transcendental knowledge through the mediation of narrative knowledge results from the mediatory role played by the biblical text, which refers the reader to a transcendent reality. This theory is then applied to the exegesis of Genesis 21:1-21, and involves the evaluation of the New Criticism, rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narrative analysis, reader-response criticism, the historical-critical method, as well as deconstruction. In order to satisfy the postulate of pluralism in interpretation, the hermeneutical theory draws upon a variety of ancient and modern sources such as Aristotle, T. S. Eliot, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Paul Ricœur.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. General or Special Hermeneutics?

2. The Illustrative Pericope Gen 21:1-21

3. A General Hermeneutical Model

4. Immanent Knowledge

5. Narrative Knowledge

6. Transcendental Knowledge

7. The General Hermeneutical Model: Corollaries

Conclusion

Backmatter

Notes:

Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-284) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612187711

9781282187719

1282187716

9783111735221

3111735222

9783110209754

3110209756

OCLC:

436455388