The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9780415180993 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 232 str.

Ingrid R. Kitzberger

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'... fascinating collection of thirteen essays offering reading of various biblical texts ... The sheer range of geographical spread and social background of the contributors (so crucial to the aims of the book as a whole) is impressive ... this is certainly a volume worth investigating' - Larry Kreitzer, The Expository Times

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.