Text and Interpretation : : New Approaches in the Criticism of the New Testament / / Edited by Hartin, Petzer.

• Superior document: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents ; 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Petzer,; Hartin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL, 1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Series: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents ; 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages).
• Notes: Sequel to A South African perspective on the New Testament, essays presented to Professor Bruce Manning Metzger in 1986.

Text and Interpretation gives an insight into the many different approaches that more recent South African scholarship has adopted in the interpretation of the New Testament. While the number of approaches in New Testament interpretation has proliferated over the past few years, all the proposals st...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / P.J. Hartin and J.H. Petzer
• Introduction / P.J. Hartin and J.H. Petzer
• Through the Eyes of a Historian / W.S. Vorster
• Eclecticism and the Text of the New Testament / J.H. Petzer
• ‘Sign’ and ‘Significance’ in the Theory and Practice of Ongoing Literary Critical Interpretation with Reference to Mark 4:24 and 25: A Study of Semiotic Relations in the Text / P.J. Maartens
• A Semantic Discourse Analysis of the Letter to Philemon / A.H. Snyman
• Narrative Criticism Applied to John 4:43-54 / A.G Van Aarde
• Speech Act Theory and New Testament Interpretation with Special Reference to G. N. Leech’s Pragmatic Principles / J.G. Du Plessis
• Reception: Theory and Practice in Reading Romans 13 / B.C. Lategan
• Rhetorical Criticism and its Theory in Culture-Critical Perspective: The Narrative Rhetoric of John 11 / W. Wuellner
• Disseminating the Word: A Deconstructive Reading of Mark 4:1-9 and Mark 4:13-20 / P.J. Hartin
• Fundamentalism as Methodological Principle / P.J. Du Plessis
• Sociological and Social Historical Investigations / W.R. Domeris
• ‘For the Kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you’: Contextual Exegesis in South Africa / J.A Draper
• Ideology and Text: John 15 in the Context of the Farewell Discourse / S. van Tilborg
• On the Road to Emmaus - A Woman’s Experience / S.J. Nortjé
• Reading Luke from the Perspective of Liberation Theology / E.H. Scheffler
• Historical Materialist Exegesis / W.R. Domeris
• Contributors / P.J. Hartin and J.H. Petzer
• Index of Names / P.J. Hartin and J.H. Petzer
• Index of Biblical References / P.J. Hartin and J.H. Petzer
• New Testament Tools and Studies / Bruce M. Metzger.