1st Edition
Playing with Scripture Reading Contested Biblical Texts with Gadamer and Genre Theory
By Andrew Judd
Copyright 2024
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture. Reading texts as Scripture brings two hermeneutical assumptions into tension: that the text will continually say something new and relevant to the present situation, and that the text has stability and authority over readers. Given how contested... Read more
Introduction
Part I: Gadamer and Genre Theory
1 Gadamer in conversation
2 Spiel
3 Genre
Part II Three Contested Biblical Texts
4 Reading psalms in the first century
5 Reading Hagar in the nineteenth century
6 Experiencing that night in Gibeah as twentieth-century horror film
Conclusion
Appendix: Breakdown of OT citations in Acts by genre
Biography
Andrew Judd is a Lecturer in Old Testament at Ridley College, Melbourne and the Australian College of Theology.
