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Reading and interpreting the Bible, whether as an 'ordinary' or critical reader, has always been strongly influenced by a person's own experience.
They demonstrate the variety of ways in which the Bible can have meaning for different people. The contributors offer challenging new perspectives on the ancient biblical books and individual texts of the Torah, the prophets, the Gospels, (Pauline) letters and Revelation. The Personal Voice in Biblical Scholarship contains the original essays of distinguished Jewish and Christian scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament from all over the world and a variety of backgrounds.
List of contents
Introduction 1 The guarded personal voice of a male European-American biblical scholar 2 My personal voice: The making of a postcolonial critic 3 The function of the non-fulfilled promises: Reading the Pentateuch from the perspective of the Latin-American oppressed people 4 Mark’s open ending and following Jesus on the way: An autobiographical interpretation of the Gospel of Mark 5 Fathers and sons: Fragments from an autobiographical midrash on John’s Gospel 6 Reading and sense-experiencing the Gospel of John 7 An adventure with Nicodemus 8 Border crossing and meeting Jesus at the well: An autobiographical re-reading of the Samaritan woman’s story in John 4:1–44 9 Reading the Letter to the Galatians from an apartheid and a post-apartheid perspective 10 My reading of 1 John in Africa 11 A self-conscious reader-response interpretation of Romans 13:1–7 12 A re-evaluation of Hosea 1–2: Philology informed by life experience 13 Revolting Revelation
About the author
Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger is a Lise Meitner Research Fellow at the University of Münster. She has published widely in feminist interpretation and reader response criticism.
Summary
The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation makes evident the multiplicity and legitimacy of different interpretations and break new gound in the ongoing debate of the hermeneutics and methods in biblical scholarship.
