Listening to the Bible
Subtitle: the art of faithful Biblical interpretation
By: Christopher Bryan ; with an appendix on liturgical reading by David Landon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780199336593
Subjects: Hermeneutik; Bible - Hermeneutics; Bible; Hermeneutics; Bibel
Description: Christopher Bryan seeks to address scholars and students who do not wish to avoid the challenges of the Enlightenment, but do wish to relate their work to the faith and mission of the people of God. Is such a combination still possible? And if so, how is the task of biblical interpretation to be understood? Bryan traces the history of modern approaches to the Bible, particularly "historical criticism," noting its successes and failures&#x2014;and notably among its failures, that it has been no more able to protect its practitioners from (in Jowett's phrase) "bringing to the text what they found there" than were the openly faith-based approaches of earlier generations. Basing his work on a wide knowledge of literature and literary critical theory, and drawing on the insights of the greatest literary critics of the last hundred years, notably Erich Auerbach and George Steiner, Bryan asks, what should be the task of the biblical scholar in the 21st century?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: The division; title: How did we get here?; title: Why Jowett's project was impossible; title: The hermeneutic of suspicion; title: So what do we do?; title: The first task: listening to the individual voices; title: A digression: "great literature?"; title: The second task: relating the parts to the whole; title: The third task: so what now?; title: The drama of the Word.