Playing with Scripture

ISBN-13: 9781032623221 / Twarda / 2024 / 256 str.

Andrew Judd

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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