Sacred Scripture : a short history of interpretation /
Soulen, Richard N.,1933-
Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- What is sacred Scripture? -- The Old Testament as sacred Scripture -- The New Testament as sacred Scripture -- Which Scripture is sacred? -- The sacred Scripture of Judaism -- The sacred Scripture of the early church -- Which manuscripts? -- What's the problem? -- The Reformation and the beginnings of a critical text of the New Testament -- Recent discoveries -- The development of the critical text -- Which translation? -- The blessing of translation -- The challenge of translation -- Translation : from the Septuagint to the King James version -- The aims of modern translation -- The Geneva Bible redivivus -- How does Scripture interpret itself? -- Scripture interpreting Scripture in the Hebrew Bible -- Typology in the New Testament -- What did the early church leaders say? -- Change and continuity -- Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon -- Origen -- Augustine, Bishop of Hippo -- How many senses does Scripture have? -- The Quadriga -- Abbot Suger and the anagogical sense -- Bernard of Clairvaux and the tropological sense -- Peter Abelard and the allegorical sense -- What is the center of Scripture? -- The center of Scripture and Luther's Reformation -- The center of Scripture and Protestant scholasticism -- The center of Scripture and pietism -- What is the literal sense of Scripture? -- The historical event behind the text : Reimarus -- Authorial mind or intent : Schleiermacher -- Ideas or concepts independent of either history or intent : Jefferson -- What is modern biblical interpretation? -- Modern and post-modern -- Source criticism -- Form criticism -- Redaction criticism -- What is contemporary biblical interpretation? -- A postmodern analogy : on playing ball with the text -- Postmodern biblical interpretation : John Frank Kermode -- Liberation biblical interpretation : Jon Sobrino -- Postcritical biblical interpretation : Hans Frei.
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