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Informationen zum Autor Katerina Koci is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences, Austria. Vorwort This volume examines the reception history of the promised land motif, particularly its afterlife in American religion and literature. Zusammenfassung Katerina Koci charts the development of the promised land motif, starting from its biblical roots and examining its reception over the centuries until the present day. As her cornerstone, Koci uses Hans-Georg Gadamer’s claim that there are two complementary paths towards understanding and knowledge: science and art. Thus, to be faithful to the creed of the great hermeneutist, Koci ventures into both topics, arguing that while science sets out historical-critical analysis of the promised land motif in the Hebrew Bible and its later receptions, art enriches the interpretation with its literary illustrations. This volume places particular focus on American contexts, since the concept of the promised land is so deeply intertwined with American religious-political mythologies, and with the art of John Steinbeck and Walter Brueggemann in particular. By discussing artistic interpretation in biblical hermeneutics, the context and reception of Genesis 15.7 and Exodus 3.8 in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and the history of the promised land motif and its interpretations, Koci argues that artistic receptions of biblical motifs are crucial for biblical scholarship in opening new hermeneutical and thematical horizons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction1. The Role of Artistic Interpretation in Biblical Hermeneutics2. The Context and Reception of the Promised Land Motif in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament 3. The Extra-Biblical and Post-Biblical History of the Promised Land Motif4. Interpretations of the Promised Land Motif by Walter Brueggemann and John Steinbeck5. Conclusion Bibliography Index
