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Carlene Hill

Form Criticism - 3 views

Form criticism is an approach to biblical studies that was originated by Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel (1862-1932). Though initially this form originated upon the principals of analyzing OT...

form criticism literary genre Hermann Gunkal Walter Brueggemann Rudolf Bultmann deconstruction

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Michael Hemenway

Cultural memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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  • Crucial in understanding cultural memory as a phenomenon is the distinction between memory and history. This distinction was put forward by Pierre Nora, who pinpointed a niche in-between history and memory. Simply put, memories are the events that actually happened, while histories are subjective representations of what historians believe is crucial to remember. This dichotomy, it should be noted, emerged at a particular moment in history: it implies that there used to be a time when memories could exist as such — without being representational.
    • Michael Hemenway
      Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
       
      This is am important discussion. Though I may not agree with Nora here, this is a common depiction of the relationship between history and memory, with memory being the raw material for histories.
  • Either in visualized or abstracted form, one of the largest complications of memorializing our past is the inevitable fact that it is absent. Every memory we try to reproduce becomes – as Terdiman states – a 'present past'. It is this impractical desire for recalling what is gone forever that brings to surface a feeling of nostalgia, noticeable in many aspects of daily life but most specifically in cultural products.
  • German Egyptologists Jan Assmann in his book "Das kulturelle Gedächtnis",
  • Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
     
    Nice, generic introduction to the field of cultural memory studies. Nothing particularly related to Bible, except the mentions of Jan Assmann, who writes extensively on history, memory and the bible (Moses the Egyptian).
  • Pamela Eisenbaum on 13 Feb 10
     
    Unlike most other theory and method, it would seem that this one has been pioneered by scholars in the field (Bible and ancient text-study)
Sterling Field

A Critique of Deconstruction - 2 views

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Wittgenstein Deconstruction Hermeneutics

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  • Sterling Field on 15 Feb 10
     
    A sound critique of deconstruction, mostly using Wittgenstein as the example. Does not necessarily rip deconstruction apart just simply present the difficulties in the deconstructionist ideas.
Brenda Goodman

Amazon.com: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective (9780486424910): Elizabet... - 2 views

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Feminist Criticism

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  • Brenda Goodman on 16 Feb 10
     
    Ahhh, the woman's Bible!
Brenda Goodman

Studies in Bible and feminist criticism - Google Books - 2 views

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Feminist Criticism

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  • Brenda Goodman on 14 Feb 10
     
    I liked the book overview for this one.
Marcus Carlson

Canonical Criticism and the Old Testament - 2 views

This one looks really interesting (and expensive), a source to address the complications of the canon and the Old Testament.

canonical criticism Bible Old Testament

started by Marcus Carlson on 15 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Micah Hemenway

The Bible and Interpretation - 2 views

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memory cultural religion interpretation

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  • Cultural or collective memory (also known as “social memory”) has become a major issue of the last fifty years in several fields. The concept originated within sociology but has more recently taken in psychology and history (see especially Zerubavel E, 2003; Zerubavel Y., 2005) to become an interdisciplinary area of investigation (see Middleton and Edwards, 1990).
  • Micah Hemenway on 09 Feb 10
     
    Phil Davies on Cultural Memory
  • Micah Hemenway on 09 Feb 10
     
    Phil is a bit polemical, but this is a good intro.
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
Michael Hemenway

A tentative answer to the question: has civil society cultural memory? | Social Researc... - 2 views

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memory cultural

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  • cultural memory is embodied in objectivations that store meaning in a concentrated manner; meanings to be shared. They can be texts (such as sacred texts), chronicles, or poetry. They can be monuments, such as buildings or statues, or any material signs or memorabilia erected as reminders. In addition, cultural memory is embodied in regularly repeated and repeatable practices: festivals, ceremonies, and rites. Finally, cultural memory--like individual memory--is linked to places.
  • Cultural memory constructs and maintains identity. As long as a group of people maintains and cultivates a common cultural memory, the group continues to exist. Yerushalmi (1982) shows that Jews consciously cultivated identity through remembrance. The frequency of the injunction "Zachor!" (Remember!) in the Jewish Bible is a case in point.
  • Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
     
    This is a nice article on cultural memory.
Brenda Goodman

http://books.google.com/books?id=ooGh9TTe0jUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1 - 2 views

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'Hermeneutics of Survival

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  • Brenda Goodman on 14 Feb 10
     
    Let's see if this works..."Hermeneutics of Survival"
Mandy Todd Moore

Introducing the New Testament - Google Books - 1 views

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redaction

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  • Mandy Todd Moore on 17 Feb 10
     
    Nice and simple description of redaction criticism with some examples from the Gospels
Joe MacDonald

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

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historical criticism

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  • 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.
  • Francis Watson
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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.
Joe MacDonald

LT108 - Rationalism in the Historical-Criticism of Hermann Gunkel - 1 views

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historical criticism

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  • Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
     
    While this article is strongly Catholic in its understanding of historical-criticism, it does pose several key issues when utilizing this method in exegetical studies.
Joe MacDonald

Historical Criticism - 1 views

Biblical historical-criticism is an exegetical approach to study that is mainly concerned with the factual evidence of the culture in which the text originated. Those who utilize this type of crit...

historical criticism

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Aaron Pope

Psychological biblical criticism - Google Books - 1 views

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psychoanalytic

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  • Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10
     
    Along with Rollin's Book Soul and Psyche, Psychological Biblical Criticism was the other book that helped to launch Psychological (Psychoanalytic) Criticism to the forefront of biblical scholarship.
bswire

Womanistic criticism - 1 views

Womanistic

started by bswire on 19 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Aaron Pope

Handbook of biblical criticism - Google Books - 1 views

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psychoanalytic

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  • Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10
     
    I own this book, it was one of the required texts in my Methods of Biblical Studies class in my undergraduate. It's a great book and I haven't checked other book lists to see if it was already tagged. But it had a helpful summary on Psychological Biblical Criticism as well as others so I wanted to tag it.
Brenda Goodman

Harvard Divinity Bulletin - Gerda Lerner - Religion and the Creation of Feminist Consci... - 1 views

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Feminist

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  • Brenda Goodman on 16 Feb 10
     
    An interesting aticle on feminisn in religion by Gerda Lerner (found in a Harvard Divinity Shool Bulletin). It mentions feminist biblical criticism.
Mary Price

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

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Reader-response

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      Mary Price on 16 Feb 10
       
      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."
Aaron Pope

The Columbia dictionary of modern ... - Google Books - 1 views

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psychoanalytic

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  • Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10
     
    Offers a brief outline/history of Psychoanalytic Criticism and lists some of its major developers and proponents.
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