The Return of Oral Hermeneutics
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The Return of Oral Hermeneutics

As Good Today as It Was for the Hebrew Bible and First-Century Christianity

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Return of Oral Hermeneutics

As Good Today as It Was for the Hebrew Bible and First-Century Christianity

About this book

Have Western exegetes turned an Eastern book into a Western one? Has our fondness for a fixed printed text capable of being analyzed with precision and exactitude blinded us to other hermeneutic possibilities? Does God require all people to be able to analyze grammar to interpret Scripture? Does God assume all people can interpret Scripture through oral means? The authors recognize the effects of centuries of literacy socialization that produced a blind spot in the Western Christian world--the neglect by most in the academies, agencies, and assemblies of the foundational and forceful role orality had on the biblical text and teaching. From the inspired spoken word of the prophets, including Jesus (pre-text), to the elite literate scribes who painstakingly hand-printed the sacred text, to post-text interpretation and teaching, the footprint of orality throughout the entire process is acutely visible to those having the oral-aural influenced eyes of the Mediterranean ancients. Could oral hermeneutics be the "mother of relational theology"?

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Illustrations
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Setting the Stage
  7. Chapter 1: Elisha and the Widow’s Oil
  8. Chapter 2: Reflections on the Elisha Story
  9. Chapter 3: Orality’s Influence on Text and Teaching
  10. Chapter 4: Oral Hermeneutics
  11. Chapter 5: Hebrew Hermeneutics
  12. Chapter 6: Character Theology
  13. Chapter 7: Questioning Our Questions
  14. Chapter 8: Reflections
  15. Chapter 9: Elisha and General Naaman
  16. Chapter 10: Reflections on the Elisha Story
  17. Concluding Reflections
  18. Glossary
  19. Appdenix A: Three Communication Eras
  20. Appendix B: The Continuum between Reading and Listening
  21. Appendix C: Alter’s Oral-Textual Parameters
  22. Appendix D: The Quintessential Characters, Stories, and Texts of the Old Testament
  23. Appendix E: The Wise Counselor Story
  24. Bibliography