Showing papers on "Exegesis published in 1993"

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

Abstract: Introduction 1. Aquinas's philosophy in its historical setting Jan A. Aertsen 2. Aristotle and Aquinas Joseph Owens 3. Aquinas and Islamic and Jewish thinkers David B. Burrell 4. Metaphysics John F. Wippel 5. Philosophy of mind Norman Kretzmann 6. Theory of knowledge Scott MacDonald 7. Ethics Ralph McInerny 8. Law and politics Paul E. Sigmund 9. Theology and philosophy Mark D. Jordan 10. Biblical commentary and philosophy Eleonore Stump.

Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture

Abstract: Theories and contexts mundus significans - the world of symbols normative models - 16th-century emblem books Henry Peacham's courtly devices a plaine invention - George Wither the philosophy of symbols exegesis and meditation - the spiritual emblem in England divine opticks - Frances Quarles symbolic theology - Henry Hawkins S.J. appendix - chronological list of English emblem books to 1700, excluding manuscripts.

The Epistle to the Philippians: a commentary on the Greek text

Abstract: This commentary series is established on the presupposition that the theological character of the New Testament documents calls for exegesis that is sensitive to theological themes as well as to the details of the historical, linguistic, and textual context. Such thorough exegetical work lies at the heart of these volumes, which contain detailed verse-by-verse commentary preceded by general comments on each section and subsection of the text. An important aim of the NIGTC authors is to interact with the wealth of significant New Testament research published in recent articles and monographs. In this connection the authors make their own scholarly contributions to the ongoing study of the biblical text. The text on which these commentaries are based is the UBS "Greek New Testament," edited by Kurt Aland and others. While engaging the major questions of text and interpretation at a scholarly level, the authors keep in mind the needs of the beginning student of Greek as well as the pastor or layperson who may have studied the language at some time but does not now use it on a regular basis.

Scripture, Canon, and Commentary. A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis

Abstract: In this major contribution to the study of the Chinese classics and comparative religion, John Henderson uses the history of exegesis to illuminate mental patterns that have universal and perennial significance for intellectual history. Henderson relates the Confucian commentarial tradition to other primary exegetical traditions, particularly the Homeric tradition, Vedanta, rabbinic Judaism, ancient and medieval Christian biblical exegesis, and Qur'anic exegesis. In making such comparisons, he discusses some basic assumptions common to all these traditions--such as that the classics or scriptures are comprehensive or that they contain all significant knowledge or truth and analyzes the strategies deployed to support these presuppositions. As shown here, primary differences among commentarial or exegetical traditions arose from variations in their emphasis on one or another of these assumptions and strategies. Henderson demonstrates that exegetical modes of thought were far from arcane: they dominated the post- classical/premodern intellectual world. Some have persisted or re- emerged in modern times, particularly in ideologies such as Marxism. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Scripture, Canon, and Commentary is not only a challenging interpretation of comparative scriptural traditions but also an excellent introduction to the study of the Confucian classics.

Arabic grammar and Qur'anic exegesis in early Islam

Abstract: This study of the earliest Qur’ānic commentaries analyzes the origin of linguistic thinking in Islam and its technical terminology.

Augustine, the Confessions

Abstract: Part I. Augustine's World: 1. Africa: world politics 2. Thagaste: family, church and school 3. Carthage: rhetoric and religion 4. Africa to Italy: Manichees and pagans 5. Milan: worldly success and renunciation 6. Return to Africa: monks and bishops Part II. Genre: Describing a Life: 7. 'The first ten books are about me ...' 8. 'I want to know all about you' 9. Spiritual biography Part III. True Confessions? Narrative and Memory: 10. What really happened? 11. Multiple readings and exegesis 12. Narrative and memory 13. Telling stories 14. Augustine's conversion Part IV. Speaking the Truth: Rhetoric and Style: 15. Sermo humilis and variation of style 16. Intertexts: Bible, classical culture and philosophy 17. Hearing the Confessions Part V. Finding Meanings: Augustine at Carthage Part VI. Reading The Confessions.

Stoic logic as handmaid to exegesis and theology in origen's commentary on the gospel of john

Abstract: L'A. presente les aspects de la logique des Stoiciens utilises par Origene dans ses travaux exegetiques concernant l'evangile de Jean.

Allegorical Poetics and the Epic: The Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost

Abstract: Treip (English, Cambridge U.) analyzes the use of allegory in and the allegorical exegesis on scripture, poetry, and particularly the epic in Europe from antiquity to the 17th and early 18th centuries. She focuses on the Renaissance and the three-way literary relationship among Tasso, Spenser, and M

In novissimis diebus: Biblical Promises, Jewish Hopes and Early Christian Exegesis

Abstract: The phrase "in these last days" ( novissimis diebus ) occurs in Isaiah 2 and Micah 4. This article discusses how this expression was interpreted in early Christian commentaries on Isaiah and Micah. It shows that the Christian interpretation of Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 is best seen in the context of a rival Jewish understanding of the text. Jews interpreted the passage not to refer to the exile in Babylonia but to the future coming of "their" Messiah. The question, then, for early Christian exegetes was not whether the text was to be taken "historically," but to which later events was it to be applied, those that defined the Jewish people or those that gave rise to the Church.

Canon and theology : overtures to an Old Testament theology

Abstract: Rendtorff's approach involves an intensive interchange with international scholarship, including Jewish biblical studies, and emphasis on the question of the canon. Important themes of Old Testament theology are developed, among them revelation and history, creation and salvation history, covenant, and paradigms of exegesis.

Parables and Fables: Exegesis, Textuality, and Politics in Central Africa

Abstract: (Members of other disciplines would be ill advised to cast the first stone!) However, it is important to insist that Kuklick is not engaged in anthropology bashing. Unlike most other intellectual historians of anthropology, she is concerned not only with the emergence of ideas, but with the formation of a discipline. As such, it is of necessity a tale of \"empire building.\" It is as intellectual history that the book is at its weakest. Kuklick tends to treat the emergence or predominance of ideas somewhat mechanistically. In a general sense, she elaborates a provocative and convincing thesis, suggesting that the style of each of these three cohorts depended broadly on their social composition, their training, but also on their experience of British society as a whole and of their place within it at very concrete moments in time: the emergence of a meritocracy, or the First World War, for example. However, she tends to construct an ideal-typical intellectual portrait of each generation, overlooking significant differences and overly homogenizing each cohort. The book as a whole raises crucial issues about the relationship of ideas to their institutionalization, but also begs the question by focusing exclusively on Britain. During this very same period, anthropology was institutionalized in very different ways in different countries. Would a comparison of national styles uphold Kuklick's implicit contention that ideas are in large measure dependent on institutional contexts and of the social situation of each generation of practitioners? Whether or not she would be vindicated, it is very much to Kuklick's credit to have asked these very sorts of questions, and to have approached the history of the discipline from \"outside\"—whether insiders like it or not.

Enigmata Figurarum: Biblical Exegesis and Liturgical Exposition in Durand's Rationale

Abstract: William Durand's (ca. 1230–1296) Rationale divinorum officiorum (ca. 1292/1296) is unquestionably the longest and most thorough commentary on the liturgy produced by a medieval liturgiologist. From the time of its appearance at the end of the thirteenth century to the Catholic Restorationist liturgical revival in mid-nineteenth-century France, it was hailed by admirers as the quintessential expression of the medieval church's understanding of the divine offices. The bishop of Mende's Rationale treats, among other things, the various parts of the church building, the ministers of the church, liturgical vestments, and the Mass and the canonical hours. It thus stands as the epitome of a four-hundred year tradition of allegorical liturgical exposition which was inaugurated in the West with the extended liturgical commentaries of the Carolingian bishop, Amalarius of Metz (died 852/853).

Introduction to New Testament Exegesis

Abstract: Equally usable by students who have studied Greek and by those who have not, this book explains and demonstrates how the structures, genres, and literary histories of New Testament passages can be discerned. Though it uses no Greek, the book nonetheless presents a considerable amount of substantial material and combines careful explanation of exegetical methods with pointed demonstration of the use of those methods in several example passages.

The reading of sacred texts in the context of early Christianity

Abstract: The article focuses on the question when the text of Scripture became fixed and unchangeable, on the practice of actualising the received text, and on exegesis as a charismatic activity or even a kind of divination. Scripture by itself was not seen as the complete revelation of God's Word. For Christians it was completed when read in the light of the Christ event; for Qumran, when read in the light of their eschatological revelations. The same is true for rabbinical Judaism: Scripture was read together with the oral Torah, and the work of discovering the will of God remained an open-ended task, even after the letters of the text were fixed

The «spiritual Exegesis» of scripture: the school of antioch revisited

Abstract: Contrary to general opinion that the interpretors of the 4th century School of Antioch understood Scripture only according to the letter of the text, this article demonstrates that they also understood it according to the spirit. This article reviews the history of scholarship on the Antiochenes' spiritual exegesis, known as theōria, from 1880 to the present. It summarizes the current state of academic inquiry, suggests practical applications of the hermeneutic for today, and provides a map for scholars to follow in future research on this scarcely studied principle of Antiochene exegesis

Gandhi On Daniel 6

Abstract: Cultural exegesis represents an attempt to take seriously the issue of the perspective and background of the contemporary reader of the biblical text, particularly given differences in culturally determined perception. The promise of a "cultural exegesis" is not merely the recognition of cultural influence in textual interpretation, but the possibility that these culturally influenced interpretations can provide new directions for critical analysis for all scholars, and not only for those who share the cultural orientation of the specific reader suggesting a particular reading or interpretation. This paper takes Mahatma Gandhi's observations on Daniel 6 as a possible case of "culturally influenced" interpretation. Some of Gandhi's comments anticipate some of the more recent trends in the analysis of Daniel 1-6, while others lead in new critical directions entirely. At issue is not whether or not Gandhi was "correct" in his interpretation and use of the Daniel motif, but whether his comments (which drew on his particular cultural background by comparing Daniel to such Hindu figures as Mirabai) provide the basis for new scholarly investigations of historical as well as contemporary interpretations of the Daniel stories.

Philosophy, Dogma, and Exegesis in Medieval Ashkenazic Judaism: The Evidence of Sefer Hadrat Qodesh

Abstract: During the Middle Ages, each Mediterranean land, from one end of the sea to the other, had its Jewish philosophers. There was one region and one Jewish culture, however, that made no contribution at all to the writing of medieval Jewish philosophy. That was Ashkenazic or Northern European Judaism, the culture of the Jews of England, Northern France, Germany, and Eastern Europe north of the Balkans.

In Dialogue With Itumeleng Mosala: a Contribution To Liberation Exegesis

Abstract: There is a widespread conviction that something needs to be done about poverty, yet even those who are best equipped to offer reasons for their concern find themselves resorting to the odd proof-text or common humanitarian concern to justify their reaction. Merely to quote Mt. 25.31-46.1 ignores acute problems of exegesis and the wider context in which this judgment scene is to be found. Consequently, not only are contrary indications ignored but the possibility of a more nuanced assessment is lost. How Christians should respond is a matter of debate. For many the limits of concern centre on charitable action as the appropriate Christian response, and suspicion attaches to anything more overtly politically committed. In particular, to what extent does the Bible support a critique of sinful structures and constructive engagement to bring about their change? Must we rest content with charitable action’ to ameliorate the worst

Josiah's Passover: Sociology and the Liberating Bible

Abstract: Focusing on the celebrated story of Josiah's Passover in 2 Kings, Shigeyuki Nakanose provides a dramatic demonstration of the contribution of sociological hermeneutics to contemporary biblical exegesis. This method complements historical-critical exegesis by reconstructing the social systems of biblical communities in their religious as well as their economic and political orders. After introducing the sociological method and a brief consideration of historical and literary-critical readings of Josiah's Passover, Nakanose explicates the method of sociological analysis and its facets - economic, social, political, and ideological. Turning to the text itself, he shows clearly how the process of liturgical purification it describes is intimately tied to the centralization of political and commercial interests in ancient Israel. He then goes on to demonstrate, using the experience of Brazilian base communities, what happens when this critical reading is joined with critical reflection on the reader's own social location.