Hermeneutics category: 533 books
Hermeneutics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Anthony Thiselton here brings together his encyclopedic knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide a splendid interdisciplinary textbook. After a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics, Thiselton moves into modern times with extensive analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
Biblical Hermeneutics is a textbook for introductory courses in hermeneutics. It takes an interdisciplinary approach that is both balanced and practical with six major areas of focus: the history of biblical interpretation, philosophical presuppositions, biblical genre, the uniqueness of Scripture,...
by Brian Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
All human experience is not merely subject to interpretation, but is itself interpretation. Moment by moment we evaluate the stimuli and information that our senses provide to our consciousness and make value judgments upon it that direct our subsequent thoughts, words, and actions. From this...
Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics
A Comprehensive Framework for Hearing God in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Renowned scholar Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the bestselling textbook The Drama of Scripture (75,000 copies sold), writes in his main area of expertise--hermeneutics--to help seminarians pursue a lifetime of biblical interpretation. Integrating the latest research in theology, philosophy, and biblical...
Hermeneutics
Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Is anything ever not an interpretation?
Does interpretation go all the way down?
Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do?
These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in...
Protestant Biblical Interpretation
A Textbook of Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Since its publication in 1950, Protestant Biblical Interpretation has been a standard introduction to hermeneutics in evangelical colleges and seminaries. Twice revised, this textbook has sold well over 100,000 copies. Now this venerable resource is available in a paperback edition.
"Hermeneutics,"...
HOW TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE
An Introduction to Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Anybody who wants to study the Bible, either at a personal level or a more scholarly level needs to understand that there are certain principles that guide and govern the process. The technical word used to refer to the principles of biblical interpretation is hermeneutics , which is of...
Prophecy and Hermeneutics (Studies in Theological Interpretation)
Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A fresh wave of studies on the prophets has appeared in recent years. Old Testament scholar Christopher R. Seitz has written Prophecy and Hermeneutics as a way of revisiting, from the ground floor up, what gave rise to studies of the prophets in our modern period. In addition, Seitz clearly shows...
From Hermeneutics to Exegesis
The Trajectory of Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Interpreting the Bible requires theoretical discernment and practical know-how.
A book that focuses solely on interpretive methods or deals exclusively with the philosophical underpinnings of interpretation fails to provide a full picture of how to read and study Scripture. Beginning with hermeneutics,...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
In Ecos of Meaning: Umberto Eco’s Semiotic Theory for Theological Hermeneutics (2016), theologian Andrew Hollingsworth seeks a clearer definition of “meaning”.
He hopes that Eco’s exposition, A Theory of Semiotics, does the trick.
Key terms include: sign, text, authorial intent and reader...
Hermeneutics
Intertextuality and the Contemporary Meaning of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
'Did Matthew "twist" the Scriptures?' 'Where did Satan come from?' 'My Reading? Your Reading? Author (-ity) and Postmodern Hermeneutics.' 'Paul and Moses: Hermeneutics from the Top Down.' Learning from Ellen White's Perception and Use of Scripture: Toward An Adventist Hermeneutic For The...
by Robert Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A provisional and preliminary attempt to show how the formative hermeneutical thinking of Anthony C. Thiselton - once systematized and critiqued - can begin to resolve the major problems found in the discipline of hermeneutics today, most notably its varying 'disunities' - theoretical, practical,...
Hermeneutics of Holiness
Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
In Hermeneutics of Holiness , Naomi Koltun-Fromm examines the ancient nexus of holiness and sexuality and explores its roots in the biblical texts as well as its manifestations throughout ancient and late-ancient Judaism and early Syriac Christianity. In the process, she tells the story of how the...
Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics
Mapping Divine and Human Agency
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
When interpreting Scripture, do we take an academic or a spiritual approach? Do we emphasize the human or the divine agency? Do we focus on man's authorship or God's inspiration?
Mark Bowald argues that these are false dichotomies. We need to understand both the human qualities of Scripture...