Exegesis and History of Reception
Reading the New Testament Today with the Readers of the Past
1st Edition
Published on 18. February 2021
244 pages
978-3-16-159654-4 (ISBN)
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Régis Burnet plädiert für eine ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung mit der Historizität des Verstehens durch die Wirkungsgeschichte. Nicht nur, weil es die Relativierung von Vorurteilen erlaubt, die von der Geschichte geerbt wurden, sondern auch, weil es einen fruchtbaren Dialog zwischen den verschiedenen exegetischen Methoden ermöglicht. Schließlich hilft es, die Kluft zu überbrücken, die zwischen den exegetischen Disziplinen und der theologischen Tradition entstanden ist.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Exegesis: A Field Going From Rupture to Rupture
- I. The Critical Turn: The Figure of the Objective Reader
- 1. A Rupture Made of Ruptures
- 2. Thinking against Tradition
- II. The Linguistic Turn: The Figure of the Reader Witnessing Himself Reading
- III. The Postmodern Turn: The Figure of the Subjective Reader
- IV. Illustration: History of the Interpretation of the Character of Judas
- 1. Judas in the Tradition: The Guilty Apostle
- 2. Judas in the Historical Turn: A Human Judas
- 3. The Narrative Figure: An "Extra" in the Story
- 4. Judas in Postmodernity
- V. Summary and Question
- Chapter 2: The Tabula Rasa Illusion
- I. The Double Illusion of the Tabula Rasa
- 1. Illusion about the Newness of Accepted Ideas
- 2. Illusion about the Antiquity of Rejected Ideas
- II. Tipping Points Are Not Where You Expect Them
- 1. Conceptual Definition: What is a "Tipping Point?"
- 2. First Test Case: Mary Magdalene
- 2.1. The Traditional Figure
- 2.2. Three Tipping Points for Three Deconstructions
- 3. Second Test Case: Bathsheba
- 3.1. Save the King at All Costs
- 3.2. Putting an End to the Woman-Object Prejudice
- III. Summary and Implications
- Chapter 3: What Does "Reading with Tradition" Mean?
- I. A Part of the Hermeneutical Philosophy
- 1. The Historicity of Understanding
- 2. A Series of Operational Concepts
- II. A Well-Known Undertaking in Biblical Studies
- 1. Taking the Wirkungsgeschichte into Account
- 2. Uses and Misuses of Wirkungsgeschichte
- III. Proposal: Reading the Bible with the Readers of the Past
- 1. Conceptual Definition: Tradition
- 2. Why Read the New Testament with Tradition?
- Chapter 4: Reading with Tradition to Be Aware of Prejudices
- I. The Book Burning of Ephesus
- 1. Dismantling the Prejudice of the Fight Against Pagan Magic
- 2. Offering an Alternative Reading
- II. Doubting Thomas
- 1. The "Doubt" of Saint Thomas as Prejudice
- 2. A Prejudice Based on a Long Tradition .
- 3. . But that Fails to Do Justice to the Complexity of the Text
- 4. Seizing a Receding Body
- III. Summary
- Chapter 5: Tradition and the Historical-Critical Method
- I. Textual Criticism: The Example of Lebbaeus
- 1. How Science Can Make a Name Disappear
- 2. Were Modern Scholars Right to Get Rid of Lebbaeus?
- 3. Is It Possible to Choose Between Thaddeus and Lebbaeus?
- II. Historical Criticism: The Author of the "Note to the Hebrews"
- 1. Hebrews 13:19.22-25 Is a Separate Unit
- 2. The Goals of the Final Addition
- 3. Dating the Letter Ending Thanks to Its Reception
- III. Engaging in Contemporary Debates: Gamaliel and the Parting of the Ways
- 1. Gamaliel, a Well-Known Pharisee
- 1.1. The Rabbinic Reception of a Pharisee From Before 70
- 1.2. The First Christian Reception of a Pharisee
- 2. How Long can Christians Speak Favourably of a Jew?
- 2.1. A First Good Impression
- 2.2. In the Fifth Century, a Still Favourable Vision
- 2.3. The Tipping Point
- 3. A Slow Appropriation
- 3.1. A First Wave in Fourth Century Syria
- 3.2. A Christian Saint in the Greek World of the Fifth Century
- 3.3. The Appropriation of the Christian Saint by Bede the Venerable
- 4. Conclusion
- IV. Summary and Perspectives
- Chapter 6: Tradition and Literary Methods
- I. Scrolls and Coats
- 1. A Brand-New Reading
- 2. Giving up the Effect of Reality
- II. John's Prolepsis
- 1. The Answer of Literary Analysis: A Prolepsis to Maintain Suspense
- 2. "This is not a Prolepsis"
- 3. Understanding the Prolepsis
- III. Summary and Perspective
- Chapter 7: Reading with Tradition as Theology in the Reader's Mirror
- I. What Is Our Relationship with Christ? - Barabbas
- 1. Eighteen Centuries of Flatness
- 2. The Rounding Out of the Figure of Barabbas
- 3. Lessons from the Thickening of the Barabbas Figure
- II. What Is Our Relationship to Death? - Lazarus
- 1. The Very Optimistic Reading of Theologians
- 2. A Reading Contradicted by Writers and the Pop Culture
- 3. A Modern Reading That Goes Back to Antiquity
- 4. Conclusion: The Text That Confronts Modernity with Death
- III. What Is Our Relationship to the Church? - The Temple of the Holy Spirit
- 1. A Rather Mysterious Passage
- 2. Contemporary Reading: The Temple of the Church
- 3. Contemporary Reading: The Temple of the Body
- IV. Synthesis and Perspectives
- Finale
- Bibliography
- Index of Studied Pericopes, Figures, and Concepts
- Index of Sources
- Old Testament
- New Testament
- Greek, Roman, and Jewish Literature
- Early Christian and Medieval Literature
- Authors since the 16th Century
