Playing With Scripture - Reading Contested Biblical Texts With Gadamer and Genre Theory

This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Gadamer and Genre Theory
1 Gadamer in conversation
2 Spiel
3 Genre
Part II Three Contested Biblical Texts
4 Reading psalms in the first century
5 Reading Hagar in the nineteenth century
6 Experiencing that night in Gibeah as twentieth-century horror film
Conclusion
Appendix: Breakdown of OT citations in Acts by genre

About the author

Andrew Judd is a Lecturer in Old Testament at Ridley College, Melbourne and the Australian College of Theology.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Judd
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032646572
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3264657-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philosophy, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, Religion: general, Christianity, Literary theory, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics