Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. : the history of its interpretation / / Volume III, : From modernism to post-modernism (the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) : / in co-operation with Peter Machinist and Jean Louis Ska, SJ ; edited by Magne Saebø.

• TeilnehmendeR: Machinist, Peter,; Ska, Jean Louis,; Sæbø, Magne,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (785 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, focuses in this concluding volume III, Part 2 on the multifarious research and the different methods used in the last century. Even this volume is written by Christion and Jewish scholars and takes its wider cultural and philosophical context into consideration. The perspective is worldwide and ecumenical. Its references to modern biblical scholarship, on which it is based, are extensive and updated.The indexes (names, topics, references to biblical

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Preface; 25. In Our Own, Post-modern Time - Introductory Remarks on Two Methodological Problems in Biblical Studies By Magne Sæbø, Oslo; 1. Contemporary History as a Historiographical Challenge; 2. On the Methodological Pluralism of Contemporary Biblical Studies; A. General Prospects of Context and Approaches of Biblical Interpretation in the Twentieth Century ; 26. Basic Questions of Hermeneutics as Part of the Cultural and Philosophical Framework of Recent Bible Studies. By Dagfinn Føllesdal, Oslo / Stanford; 1. Hermeneutics

1.1. Hermeneutics in China1.2. Canon. Theology and Law. Philosophy; 1.3. Expansion to Literary and Other Kinds of Texts; 1.4. Hermeneutics and Natural Science; 1.5. The Hermeneutic Circle; 1.6. The "New" Hermeneutics. Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer; 1.7. Hermeneutics of Suspicion. Habermas. Ricoeur; 1.8. What are we after in Hermeneutics? Meaning?; 2. What is Meaning? Quine and Davidson; 2.1. The Public Nature of Language; 2.2. Problems with Perception; 2.3. The Early Davidson: "Maximize Agreement"; 3. Conclusion

27. The Linguistic Context of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic in the Framework of Semitic Philology, Including Semitic Epigraphy. By Steven E. Fassberg, Jerusalem1. Increasing Knowledge of the Semitic Languages; 2. Discoveries in Northwest Semitic ; 3. Discoveries in Hebrew; 4. Discoveries in Aramaic; 5. Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Grammars and Dictionaries in the Light of New Data; 28. Institutions and Social Life in Ancient Israel: Sociological Aspects By Anselm C. Hagedorn, Berlin; 1. Introduction; 2. From J. Wellhausen and M. Weber to R. de Vaux; 2.1. Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918)

2.2. Max Weber (1864-1920)2.3. Johs. Pedersen (1883-1977); 2.4. Antonin Causse (1877-1947); 2.5. Roland de Vaux (1903-1971); 3. Beyond Roland de Vaux; 3.1. Anthropologists Discover the Hebrew Bible; 3.2. The Study of Institutions and Social Life in Ancient Israel since 1970; 29. The Legacy of the Literary-critical School and the Growing Opposition to Historico-critical Bible Studies. The Concept of 'History' Revisited - Wirkungsgeschichte and Reception History. By John Barton, Oxford; 1. Early Opposition to Historical Criticism; 2. Biblical Archaeology

3. Karl Barth and the Canonical Approach4. Advocacy Readings; 5. Literary Study of the Bible; 6. Postmodernism; 7. Reader-response Criticism and Wirkungsgeschichte; 8. New Historicism; 9. The Term 'Historical Criticism'; 30. The Emergence of the Form-critical and Traditio-historical Approaches. By Antony F. Campbell, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; 1. Introductory; 2. Hermann Gunkel; 3. Hugo Gressmann; 4. In the Wake of Hermann Gunkel; 4.1. Johannes Hempel; 4.2. Albrecht Alt ; 4.3. Sigmund Mowinckel; 4.4. Gerhard von Rad; 4.5. Martin Noth; 4.6. Klaus Koch; 4.7. Rolf Knierim; 5. Conclusion

31. Contemporary Methods in Hebrew Bible Criticism. By David J. A. Clines, Sheffield