The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative : A Study of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics / Hans W. Frei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frei, Hans W., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Laced with brilliant insights, broad in its view of the interaction of culture and theology, this book gives new resonance to old and important questions about the meaning of the Bible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Precritical Interpretation of Biblical Narrative

3. Change in Interpretation: The Eighteenth Century

4. Anthony Collins: Meaning, , Reference, and Prophecy

5. Hermeneiitics and Meaning-as-Reference

6. Biblical Hermeneutics and Religious Apologetics

7. Apologetics, Criticism, and the Loss of Narrative Interpretation

8. Hermeneutics and Biblical Authority in German Thought

9. The Quest for A Unitary Meaning

10. Herder on thfe Bible: The Realistic §pirit in History

11. The Lack of Realism in German Letters

12. Strauss's Perfection of the "Mythical" Option

13. Hermeneutical Options at the Turn of the Century

14. Myth and Narrative Meaning: A Question of Categories

15. The Hermeneutics of Understanding

16. "Understanding" and Narrative Continuity

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300161809

0300161808

OCLC:

1059263454