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A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICS aiior in Edited by Donald K. McKim A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICS M ajor Trends in Biblical Interpretation Edited by Donald K. McKim Wifi f and Stock Publishers 150 West Broadway Eugene OR 97401 ♦ . 1999 To Van Hunter faithful biblical interpreter, whose insights into Holy Scripture are matched only by his sensitive, caring friendship Dedicated with appreciation A Guide to Contemporary Hermeneutics Major Trends in Biblical Interpretation Edited by McKim, Donald K. Copyright© 1998 McKim, Donald K. ISBN: 1-57910-250-6 Wipfand Stock Publishers; ggg Reprinted by 150 West Broadway ♦ Eugene OR 97401 Previously Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1986 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Preface xi Introduction, Donald K. McKim xiii Contributors xix PART I: BIBLICAL AVENUES Hermeneutical Perspectives Biblical Hermeneutics in Recent Discussion: Old Testament, Bruce C. Birch 3 Biblical Hermeneutics in Recent Discussion: New Testament, Daniel J. Harrington 13 The Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics 21 Theology and Exegesis: Ten Theses, David C. Steinmetz 27 Interpretive Procedures Typological Interpretation of the Old Testament, Gerhard von Rad 28 The Sensus Plenior and Biblical Interpretation, William Sanford LaSor 47 'Die Superiority of Precritical Exegesis, David C. Steinmetz 65 The New Hermeneutic, Anthony C. Thiselton 78 v VI CONTENTS PART II: THEOLOGICAL ATTITUDES Legitimate Hermeneutics, Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Ill Hermeneutics and Theology: The Legitimacy and Necessity of Hermeneutics, Anthony C. Thiselton 142 PART Ills CURRENT ASSESSMENTS Biblical Hermeneutics on the Move, Karlfried Froehlich 175 Biblical Authority and Interpretation: The Current Debate on Hermeneutics, Thomas W. Gillespie 192 Mind Reader and Maestro: Models for Understanding Biblical Interpreters, Patrick R. Keifert 220 PART IV: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES Theological The Sovereign Subject Matter: Hermeneutics in the Church Dogmatics, Thomas E. Provence 241 Literary The Coming Revolution: The New Literary Approach to the New Testament, Peter W. Macky 263 Structural The Structuralists and the Bible, Richard Jacobson 280 Contextual The Interpreted Word: Reflections on Contextual Hermeneutics, C. Rene Padilla 297 Anthropological Supracultural Meanings via Cultural Forms, Charles H. Kraft 309 Liberation Theology Hermeneutics, Truth, and Praxis, Jose Miguez Bonino 344 Feminist Theology Toward a Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics: Biblical Interpretation and Liberation Theology, Elisabeth Schiissler Fiorenza 358 Index 383 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editor and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint the following material: Birch, Bruce C. “Biblical Hermeneutics in Recent Discussion: Old Testament.” Religious Studies Review 10 (1984): 1-7. Froehlich, Karlfried. “Biblical Hermeneutics on the Move.” Word and World 1 (1981): 140-52. Harrington, Daniel J. “Biblical Hermeneutics in Recent Dis cussion: New Testament.” Religious Studies Review 10 (1984): 7-10. International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. “Articles of Affir mation and Denial.” Copyright © 1982 by the Interna tional Council on Biblical Inerrancy. Previously appeared in Hermeneutics, Inerrancy and the Bible. Edited by Earl D. Radmacher and Robert D. Preus. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984. Pp. 881-87. Jacobson, Richard, “The Structuralists and the Bible.” Inter pretation 28 (1974): 146-64. Kaiser, Walter C., Jr. “Legitimate Hermeneutics.” In Inerrancy. Edited by Norman L. Geisler. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1979. Pp. 117-47. Copyright © 1978 by The Zondervan Corporation. Used by permission. Keifert, Patrick R. “Mind Reader and Maestro: Models for vli vlfl ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Understanding Biblical Interpreters.” Word and World 1 (1980): 153-68. Kraft, Charles H. “Supracultural Meanings via Cultural Forms.” In Christianity in Culture: A Study in Dynamic Biblical Theologizing in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1979. Pp. 116-46. Copyright © 1979 by Charles H. Kraft. LaSor, William Sanford. “The Sensus Plenior and Biblical Inter pretation.” In Scripture, Tradition, and Interpretation: Essays Presented to Everett F. Harrison by His Students and Colleagues in Honor of His Seventy fifth Birthday. Edited by W. Ward Gasque and William Sanford LaSor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978. Pp. 260-77. Macky, Peter W. “The Coming Revolution: The New Literary Approach to New Testament Interpretation.” The Theo logical Educator 9 (Spring 1979): 32-46. Miguez Bonino, Jose. “Hermeneutics, Truth, and Praxis.” In Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975. Pp. 86-105. Copyright © 1975 by Fortress Press. Used by permission. Padilla, C. Rene. “The Interpreted Word: Reflections on Con textual Hermeneutics.” Themelios, September 1981, pp. 18-23. Rad, Gerhard von. “Typological Interpretation of the Old Tes tament.” Translated by John Bright. Copyright © 1952, 1963 by Christian Kaiser Verlag. Previously appeared in Essays on Old Testament Hermeneutics. Edited by James Luther Mays. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1963. Pp. 17-39. Schiissler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. “Toward a Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics: Biblical Interpretation and Liberation Theology.” In The Challenge of Liberation Theology: A First World Response. Edited by Brian Mahan and C. Dale Richesin. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1981. Pp. 91-112. Steinmetz, David C. “Theology and Exegesis: Ten Theses.” Histoire de Vexegese au XVIe siecle. Textes Du Colloque In ternational Tenu a Geneve en 1976. Geneve: Librairie Droz S. A., 1978. P. 382.
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