Semeia 73: Reading With: An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“The inculturation biblical hermeneutic supposes that the biblical text is plurivalent and can be validly understood differently according to different contexts and perspectives. But this does not mean that the biblical text can mean anything. Instead it recognizes that there are dynamics built into a text for guiding interpretation, and that these dynamics can function in different contexts to produce different but valid interpretations. Therefore, it advocates a multi-cultural approach to interpreting biblical texts whereby the biblical message becomes available to people of different cultures according to their various contexts.” (Page 191)
“I have coined the term ‘inculturation biblical hermeneutic’ to designate an interpretation derived from the methodology of inculturation theology. The term ‘inculturation theology’ does not refer to a specific theological discipline. Rather, it refers to a hermeneutical process in theologizing that cuts across all theological disciplines including biblical exegesis. It is a new way of doing theology. ‘Inculturation biblical hermeneutic’ is its application to biblical interpretation.” (Page 190)
“But more than that, I think workers would notice something of their own experience in texts that do not make use of the word ‘work’ at all. And that indeed is something that we might easily overlook.” (Page 215)
“I think I can safely say that the reason why theologians have had so little success in the construction of a theology of work is that professional theologians today are not workers, are not members of the working class, and therefore do not have first hand experience of work—at least not in the sense of labour or manual work.” (Page 214)
- Jonathan Draper
- Musa W. Dube
- Teresia M. Hinga
- Bernard Lategan
- Timothy Long
- Itumeleng J. Mosala
- Albert Nolan
- Daniel Patte
- John Pobee
- John Riches
- Justin Ukpong
- Megan Walker
- Renita J. Weems
- Gerald West
- Gunther Wittenberg
- Title: Semeia 73: Reading With: An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible
- Editors: Gerald West and Musa W. Dube
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1997
- Pages: 288
