Handbook for Biblical Interpretation

An Essential Guide to Methods, Terms, and Concepts

W. Randolph Tate

• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780801048623
• eBook ISBN: 9781441240361
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to methods, terms, and concepts used by biblical interpreters. It offers students and non-specialists an accessible resource for understanding the complex vocabulary that accompanies serious biblical studies. Articles, arranged alphabetically, explain terminology associated with reading the Bible as literature, clarify the various methods Bible scholars use to study biblical texts, and illuminate how different interpretive approaches can contribute to our understanding. Article references and topical bibliographies point readers to resources for further study. This handbook, now updated and revised to be even more useful for students, was previously published as Interpreting the Bible: A Handbook of Terms and Methods. It is a suitable complement to any standard hermeneutics textbook.

Selected Bibliography

CRITICAL THEORY: GENERAL

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Abrams, M. H. “The Deconstructive Angel.” Pages 265–76 in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Edited by D. Lodge and N. Wood. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2000.

Achebe, C. “Colonialist Criticism.” Pages 57–61 in The Post-colonial Studies Reader. Edited by B. Ashcroft et al. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Adam, I., and H. Tiffin. Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-colonialism and Post-modernism. Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

Adamson, J., and S. Slovic. “Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Shoulders We Stand On: An Introduction to Ethnicity and Ecocriticism.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 34, no. 2 (2009): 5–209.

Adorno, T. W. Aesthetic Theory. London: Routledge, 1984.

———. Negative Dialectics. Translated by E. B. Ashton. New York: Continuum, 1973.

Ahmad, A. “The Politics of Literary Post-coloniality.” Race and Class 36, no. 3 (1995): 1–20.

Althusser, L. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes toward an Investigation.” Pages 121–73 in Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays. Translated by B. Brewster. London: New Left Books, 1971.

Altick, R. D. The Art of Literary Research. Rev. ed. New York: Norton, 1975.

Appiah, K. A. “Is the Post- in Post-modernism the Post- in Post-colonial?” Critical Inquiry 17, no. 2 (1991): 336–57.

Appleby, J., H. Lynn, and M. Jacob. Telling the Truth about History. New York: Norton, 1994.

Aristotle. The Metaphysics. Translated by H. Lawson-Tancred. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1998.

Armbruster, K., and K. R. Wallace, eds. Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001.

Armstrong, I., ed. New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Ashcroft, B. Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Ashcroft, B., G. Griffiths, and H. Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. New York: Routledge, 1989.

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Atkins, G. D. Reading Deconstruction: Deconstructive Reading. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1983.

Attridge, D., G. Bennington, and R. Young, eds. Poststructuralism and the Question of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1962.

Badcock, C. R. Lévi-Strauss: Structuralism and Sociological Theory. London: Hutchinson, 1975.

Bakhtin, M. The Dialogic Imagination. Edited by M. Holquist. Translated by C. Emerson and M. Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.

———. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Edited by C. Emerson and M. Holquist. Translated by V. McGee. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.

Baldick, C. Criticism and Literary Theory, 1890 to the Present. New York: Longman, 1996.

Bann, S., and J. E. Bowlt. Russian Formalism: A Collection of Articles and Texts in Translation. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1973.

Barker, M. Comics: Ideology, Power, and the Critics. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1989.

Barr, M. S. Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory. New York: Greenwood, 1987.

Barrett, M. Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis. London: New Left Books, 1980.

Barthes, R. Critical Essays. Translated by R. Howard. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1976.

———. Criticism and Truth. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

———. Empire of Signs. Translated by R. Howard. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

———. “From Work to Text.” Pages 73–81 in Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-structuralist Criticism. Edited by J. V. Harari. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.

———. “Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives.” Pages 79–124 in Image, Music, Text: Roland Barthes. Translated by S. Heath. New York: Hill & Wang, 1977.

———. The Pleasure of the Text. Translated by R. Miller. London: Jonathan Cape, 1976.

———. S/Z / Roland Barthes. Translated by Richard Miller. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.

Bassnett, S. Feminist Experiences: The Women’s Movement in Four Cultures. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986.

Bauman, Z. Intimations of Postmodernity. London: Routledge, 1992.

———. Postmodernity and Its Discontents. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Baxandal, L., and S. Morawski. Marx and Engels on Literature and Art. St. Louis: Telos, 1973.

Becket, F., and T. Gifford, eds. Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.

Bell, D. S. The End of Ideology. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960.

Bennett, T., et al., eds. Culture, Ideology, and Social Process. London: Batsford, 1981.

Bernard-Donals, M. F. Mikhail Bakhtin: Between Phenomenology and Marxism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bernauer, J. W. Michel Foucault’s Force of Flight: Towards an Ethics for Thought. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1990.

Bertens, H. The Idea of the Post-modern: A History. London: Routledge, 1995.

Bertens, H., and D. Fokkema, eds. International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997.

Bhabha, H. K. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.

———. “Postcolonial Criticism.” Pages 437–65 in Redrawing the Boundaries. Edited by S. Greenblatt and G. Gunn. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992.

Black, E. Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

Bloom, H. The Anxiety of Influence. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.

———. Deconstruction and Criticism. New York: Seabury, 1979.

———. A Map of Misreading. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Boehmer, E. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Booth, W. C. The Rhetori...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Articles
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• Y
• Z
• Selected Bibliography
• Author Index
• Scripture Index
• Back Cover