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Carlene Hill

Canonical Criticism - 31 views

I agree, Steve, which is why I asked the question about our understanding having a limit. I, too, believe we continue to learn through human-God interactions today. Martin Luther King Jr. is an exa...

canonical criticism

started by Marcus Carlson on 16 Feb 10 12 follow-ups, last by Carlene Hill on 22 Feb 10
Schawn Kellogg

Biblical Interpretation: An ... - Google Books - 0 views

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narrative author story

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  • Schawn Kellogg on 14 Feb 10
     
    section on narrative criticsm. Good discussion on narrative world not being identical to the real world; implied author shaping story world by selecting (and excluding) events.
Joe MacDonald

Reader-response Criticsm - 24 views

This approach is in direct contrast to the approach which I studied. I enjoy this approach much better, because there is room for theological interpretation. In historical criticism that is not t...

Reader-response

started by Mary Price on 16 Feb 10 6 follow-ups, last by Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
suesaldin

Psychoanalytic Criticism - 28 views

Thanks, Aaron. You've hit on a lively topic in psychology - nature versus nurture. I agree that physiologically our human brain structure has been stable for an extraordinarily long time. I thin...

Psychoanalytic Criticism

started by Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10 7 follow-ups, last by suesaldin on 18 Feb 10
Angie Steinhauer

Source Criticism Defined - 2 views

Source Criticism is the tool used to identify the original document that a biblical author utilized when they wrote a book for the Bible. This process identifies 4 major sources (credited to Julius...

criticism source

started by Angie Steinhauer on 14 Mar 10 no follow-up yet
suesaldin

Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations (Bible ... - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    Examines three ways the Bible has been interpreted in Asia historically: "Orientalist," "Anglicist" and "Nativist." The table of contents indicates that the author advocates "textual cleansing" and a "postcolonial translation strategy" for the multifaith culture of Asia.
suesaldin

Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins: Fernando F. Segovia - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    A leading scholar in the field examines the massive shifts in the field of Biblical criticism during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The author notes the steady process of sociopolitical (not economic) decolonization over the twentieth century and the movement into the foreground of the voices of the colonized. One reviewer suggests that the book is packed with great insights and that the writing is unnecessarily dense and difficult.
suesaldin

A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • It places the reality and ramifications of imperial-colonial frameworks and relations at the centre of biblical criticism.
  • They show, among other things, how texts and interpretations construct and/or relate to their respective imperial-colonial contexts
  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    Series of essays with a focus on the New Testament, edited by two prominent scholars in postcolonial criticism. In the chapter by Sze-kar Wan, The Letter to the Galatians, he explores the ethnic tension in the letter and the dangers of over-simplification when examining ethnic categories such as Jewish and Gentile. He further discusses how "Roman imperial discourse was ... revised and appropriated for the use of the Jerusalem Jesus-movement." A focus on how empire shapes a minority community and the power dynamics within the community itself. Bibliography could be expanded by examining the work of the individual authors.
Schawn Kellogg

Amazon.com: Narrative Criticism of the New Testament: An Introduction (9780801027895): ... - 0 views

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narrative setting reader

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  • Schawn Kellogg on 16 Feb 10
     
    Discusses how the author has used things like rhetorical devices, setting, characterization, point of view and plot as ways of conveying a message and shaping readers.
Joe MacDonald

Historical Criticism | where are you coming from? | collaborative theology for the emer... - 0 views

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historical criticism

shared by Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Historical criticism attempts to find the world the text is set in and the world the text was written in. Historical criticism wants to know where the text is coming from.
  • It’s probably useful at this time to notice the intertextuality of the Bible. By this, I mean that the people writing were aware of everything that was written beforehand. This is especially noticeable when New Testament authors quote Old Testament sources. When we come across this in our reading we should take note of how the author echoes his source and how he re-interprets it.
  • Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
     
    This is a basic analysis of historical criticism. There is also a basic approach to understanding the process by which historical criticism might be utilized.
suesaldin

Customer Reviews: Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World - 0 views

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  • Western colonial governments and missionary movements over centuries brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to many parts of the world. At the turn of this new century, with most African, Asian, and South American countries having gained independence from their former colonists, Third World Christians struggle with a heritage of Western theology, expectations, and abuses. New generations in a maturing church are questioning the need for Christ's message to be filtered through, and approved by, Western scholarship. With some sense of hurt and resentment, yet with a desire to effectively bring the gospel to their own peoples, Third World theologians support creative biblical hermeneutics that fit their cultures. This book is a collection of thirty-four writings by authors from twenty-two countries.
  • Many writers want to interpret Christ in ways that honor ancient, rich cultures that may have been crushed by colonization or rejected as evil by early missionaries. Others simply want the message of the Bible to be embraced by needy people of their country: the overwhelming theme of the book is that our God notices, loves, and defends the marginalized - that is, poor, oppressed, and powerless people.
  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    This review reflects in straightforward language the need for and goal of postcolonial criticism. It seems that the writer's faith is renewed and enlarged by this approach to reading the text.
suesaldin

WHEN THE TEXT IS THE PROBLEM: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH TO BIBLICAL PEDAGOGY - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • Postcolonial biblical critics use a multilayered biblical hermeneutic, one that emphasizes "the demythologization of the biblical authority, the demystification of the use of the Bible, and the construction of new models of interpretation of the Bible" (Kwok 1995, 30). Fernando Segovia, a postcolonial New Testament scholar, for example, argues that there are three different and equally important worlds that readers of the Bible should investigate and analyze: the world of the text, the world of modernity, and the world of today (Segovia 2002, 119-132).
  • Questions about culture, ideology, and power are sine qua non (quibus, really) for understanding the text.
  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    Examines postcolonial Biblical criticism as it applies to teaching the Bible. Provides a succinct overview of this approach to reading the Bible. Includes an analysis of the story of Hagar and Sarah that examines the sociopolitical context of the writer, traditional modern interpretations and concludes that Hagar and Sarah are examples of courageous, marginalized women in a patriarchal society who are able to maintain their dignity. Contrasts this reading with a feminist interpretation.
Aaron Pope

Feminist Biblical Criticism - 9 views

I too, like Schawn, had limited to no experience with Feminism and Feminist Scholarship before I came to Iliff. In fact, the only exposure I had was in an Introductory Theology Class where we were ...

Feminist

started by Brenda Goodman on 17 Feb 10 2 follow-ups, last by Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10
Mary Price

Redaction Criticism - 22 views

Brenda, I like your words "we come away with a greater understanding of the text's message and an invitation to find our connection to it". I have not really thought about reading scripture this wa...

redaction

started by Mandy Todd Moore on 15 Feb 10 6 follow-ups, last by Mary Price on 18 Feb 10
Joe MacDonald

What is Historical Criticism? « Messianic Jewish Musings - 1 views

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historical criticism

shared by Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Alan Cooper spoke basically to say that for Jewish readers it is not difficult to uphold historical critical views of the text at the same time as upholding Torah as sacred authority.
  • Peter Machinist defined historical criticism as reading the Bible from its human side and seeing it as rooted in historical realities.
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  • Francis Watson of Durham University gave a provocative lecture. He said we should abandon the term historical criticism altogether for the following reasons: (1) Biblical scholars are not historians and should not imply that we are. (2) Historical criticism is not a neutral characterization. In its origin the term referred to textual criticism, which is about restoring texts. Historical criticism, by contrast, has been about doubting them. The historical critical movement has had an agenda to criticize, in the harsh sense, other views of the Bible. (3) Historical criticism has claimed that its methods are objective, neutral, and not about dogma. This has been shown to be a farce. (4) The real issue has been modernity and rationalism versus tradition. (5) Historical approaches to a text are far from the totality of the work we do. Much Biblical scholarship is not historical but interpretive. (6) The distance historical critics claim to put between themselves and the text is illusory. (7) Therefore, we should talk about biblical studies or scholarship and make the term historical criticism defunct.
  • Historical criticism, simply put, is the idea of studying the Biblical texts scientifically, which has led to dissecting the Bible into many alleged source texts.
  • First, it is important to know that historical criticism has fallen on increasing disfavor. The whole project is so rationalist and assumes the possibility of so much knowledge and the superiority of the modern over pre-modern cultures, that in this post-modern age, the enterprise is looking more and more imperialistic.
  • Legaspi traced the history of historical criticism and its move from seeing the Bible as scripture to seeing the Bible as simply a text.
  • One step in this journey was the Reformation, in which there arose a question for the first time about which version of the Bible and which selection of Bible books was valid.
  • The death of scripture in the West was solidified in 18th century German universities.
  • H-C was successful for a time, quite a long time in fact. My point was simply that it is no longer in a position to function as it once did. I don’t believe it is in an epistemological position inferior to that of confessional modes, i.e. regarding objectivity or tradition. But I believe that the discourse that it has framed is not a promising one for actual religious communities functioning now, in a post-Christian–not simply post-confessional–society.
  • Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
     
    This is a very nice summary of several SBL papers addressing the issue of historical criticism. Several different views are expressed in a very well framed and concise manner.
Schawn Kellogg

Narrative Criticism - 4 views

Narrative Criticism is a modern critical approach to Biblical reading. It treats the text as a whole, rather than in parts such as is common in the more historical critical approaches of the 18th c...

narrative Criticism

started by Schawn Kellogg on 17 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Angie Steinhauer

Source Criticism - 9 views

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_criticism_(Biblical_studies) Source criticism, as the term is used in biblical criticism, refers to the attempt to establish the sources used by the author and/...

source

started by Angie Steinhauer on 15 Feb 10 1 follow-up, last by Angie Steinhauer on 18 Feb 10
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