After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation
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After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation
About this book
"There is always some view of language built into biblical interpretation. If we are to read Scripture to hear God’s address it is vital that we attend to current debates about language and become critically conscious in this respect." Craig Bartholomew After Pentecost is the second volume from the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar. This annual gathering of Christian scholars from various disciplines was established in 1998 and aims to reassess the discipline of biblical studies from the foundations up and forge creative new ways for reopening the Bible in our cultures. The Seminar was aware from the outset that any renewal of biblical interpretation would have to attend to the issue of language. In this rich and creative volume the importance of linguistic issues for biblical interpretation is analyzed, the challenge of postmodernism is explored, and some of the most creative recent developments in philosophy and theology of language are assessed and updated for biblical interpretation. CONTRIBULTORS INCLUDE: Mary Hesse Ray Van Leeuwen Anthony Thiselton Kevin Vanhoozer Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- The Artists
- Introduction By Craig G. Bartholomew
- 1. From Speech Acts to Scripture Acts: The Covenant of Discourse and the Discourse of Covenant
- 2. Ricœur, Speech-act Theory, and the Gospels As History
- 3. The Promise of Speech-act Theory for Biblical Interpretation
- 4. How to Be a Postmodernist and Remain a Christian: A Responce to Nicholas Wolterstorff
- 5. ‘Behind’ and ‘In Front Of’ the Text: Language, Reference and Indeterminacy
- 6. A ‘Polite’ Response to Anthony Thiselton
- 7. Before Babel and After Pentecost: Language, Literature and Biblical Interpretation
- 8. Language at the Frontiers of Language
- 9. ‘Starting a Rockslide’ - Deconstructing History and Language via Christological Detonators
- 10. Words of Power: Biblical Language and Literary Criticism With Reference to Stephen Prickett’s Words and the Word and Mark 1:21-28
- 11. Reviving the Power of Biblical Language: The Bible, Literature and Literary Language
- 12. Naming the Father: The Teaching Authority of Jesus and Contemporary Debate
- 13. Back to Babel – That Confounded Language Again: A Response to David L. Jeffrey
- 14. On Bible Translation and Hermeneutics
- 15. Illocutionary Stance In Hans Frei’s The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: An Exercise In Conceptual Redescription and Normative Analysis
- 16. Metaphor, Symbol and the Interpretation of Deuteronomy
- 17. Words of (In-)evitable Certitude? Reflections On the Interpretation of Prophetic Oracles of Judgement
- 18. Metaphor and Exegesis
- Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, School of Theology and Religious Studies
- The British and Foreign Bible Society
- Name Index
- Subject Index