Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in Biblical Narratives - A Hermeneutical Study of Genesis 21.1-21

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 Ricoeur.

A propos de l'auteur

Krzysztof Sonek, École biblique et archéologique française, Jerusalem, Israel.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Kris Sonek, Krzysztof P. Sonek, Krzysztof Piotr Sonek
• Edition: De Gruyter
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 25.05.2009
• EAN: 9783110209747
• ISBN: 978-3-11-020974-7
• Pages: 290
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 24 mm x 230 mm
• Poids: 554 g
• Thèmes: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; ISSN
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme; Altes Testament, Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte, Exegese, Schriftauslegung, Hebräische Bibel, Auslegung (Bibel), Bibel / Altes Testament, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Bibel /Interpretation; Hermeneutik; Religion; Bible; Biblical Studies; Interpretation; Hermeneutics