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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

Mary Price

Reader-response criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Reader-response critics hold that, to understand the literary experience or the meaning of a text, one must look to the processes readers use to create that meaning and experience
  • In stressing the activity of the scholar, reader-response theory justifies such upsettings of traditional interpretations as, for example, deconstruction or cultural criticism.
  • Since reader-response critics focus on the strategies readers are taught to use, they address the teaching of reading and literature
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  • Also, because reader-response criticism stresses the activity of the reader, reader-response critics readily share the concerns of feminist critics and critics writing on behalf of gays, ethnic minorities, or post-colonial peoples.
Mary Price

Reader-Response Criticism Criticism - 0 views

  • During the late 1970s and 1980s, reader-response criticism, influenced in part by trends in other disciplines, especially psychology and psychoanalytical theories, expanded to include a study of the reader as subject, a combination of various social practices, defined and positioned socially by his or her environment. This shift from the relationship between reader and text, and their mutual impact, to a focus on self-knowledge and observation has been summarized in anthologies, including Jane Tompkins's Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Poststructuralism (1980).
Schawn Kellogg

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

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    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.
suesaldin

Sugirtharajah: Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretat - Oxford University Press - 0 views

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    "In this stimulating study, R. S. Sugirtharajah explores the implications of postcolonial criticism for biblical studies. He provides a comprehensive overview of the origins, definitions, and procedures of postcolonial criticism, followed by a discussion of the significance of postcolonial criticism in biblical interpretation. He reveals how postcolonial criticism can offer an alternative perspective to our understanding of the Bible, and how, when the Bible has been deployed as a Western cultural icon, it has come to be questioned in new ways. " This book provides an overview of postcolonial Biblical criticism from a leading scholar - may be heavy going but is recommended for interested lay readers.
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

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Mary Price

Reader-Response Criticism and Postmodernism? | Christian Classics Ethereal Library - 0 views

  • All this hoop jumping an technique labeling, to get at the exegetical method Paul himself was explaining. "The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life." The idea that we must know the letter of the law was foundational for Paul, which is very much equivalent to the modern idea that we can have some kind of certain knowledge about a text's meaning. The postmodern claim is essentially that inherent meaning does not exist, that individuals invest reality with their own meaning (true enough), and so there is no concrete meaning to the Bible beyond what we say; this is like trying to start with the Spirit, and end with the Law, the reverse of the New Testament project. But, as one prophet put it, we must worship God "in Spirit, and in Truth." We must pay attention to what the text says, and what the author's themselves intended to communicate to their audiences, and we must also pay attention to the underlying Spirit, the principles and intentions that reveal themselves as relevant for all audiences at all times. In short, we must have both approaches, working in tandem, and preferably with a new label, if we are to have something resembling truly Biblical exegesis.
Mary Price

WHY HASN'T READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM CAUGHT ON IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES?1 -- Porter 4 (... - 1 views

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      The highlighter would not work on this page, but I wanted to note the first sentence in the second paragraph that reads "many scholars...are not certain what it is."
suesaldin

The Postcolonial Biblical Reader: R. S. Sugirtharajah - 0 views

  • They examine how various empires such as the Persian and Roman affected the narratives of the Bible, and how different biblical writers of the Hebrew scriptures, and others such as Paul, Matthew and Mark handled the challenges of empire. They also include illuminating examples of the practical application of postcolonial criticism to biblical texts, and explore issues which have emerged in the aftermath of colonialism such as diaspora, race, representation and territory.
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    A series of essays by a preeminent scholar in the field. This book would be a great starting place for a comprehensive look at postcolonial Biblical criticism. Includes editorial commentary that provides cohesiveness.
suesaldin

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

  • 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.
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    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.
Michael Hemenway

Postcolonial Biblical Criticism - 10 views

Sue, this is a marvelous summary of a complicated approach. thanks. Dube is a marvelous read!

Postcolonial

Joe MacDonald

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

  • 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.
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    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.
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

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