"Behind" the text : history and biblical interpretation /
edited by Craig Bartholomew, C. Stephen Evans, Mary Healy, Murray Rae.
- Carlisle, Cumbria : Grand Rapids, Mich. : Paternoster Press ; Zondervan, 2003.
- xx, 553 p. ; 24 cm.
- Scripture and hermeneutics series ; v. 4 .
- Scripture and hermeneutics series .
Based on papers of the consultation of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar, held in Boston, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-519) and indexes.
1. Two (or more) kinds of scripture scholarship / Warranted biblical interpretation: Alvin Plantinga's 'two (or more) types of scripture scholarship' / A warranted version of historical biblical criticism? / Reason and scripture scholarship / Do you want us to listen to you? / Taking soundings: history and the authority of scripture. A response to Peter Van Inwagen / Which conversation shall we have? History, historicism and historical narrative in theological interpretation. A response to Peter Van Inwagen / Historical criticism of the synoptic gospels / Behind, in front of ... or through the text? The christological analogy and the lost world of biblical truth / The place of history in Catholic exegesis : an examination of the Pontifical Biblical Commission's 'The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church' / Alvin Plantinga -- Craig G. Bartholomew -- Robert Gordon -- Alvin Plantinga -- Peter Van Inwagen -- Colin J.D. Greene -- Joel Green -- William P. Alston -- Mary Healy -- Peter Williamson -- Introduction / Historical criticism. Critical assessments. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Knowing and believing : faith in the past / Creation and promise : towards a theology of history / The conflict of tradition and history / Tradition, biblical interpretation and historical truth / Ricour on history, fiction, and biblical hermeneutics / (Pre) figuration : masterplot and meaning in biblical history / Reconstructing and interpreting Amos's literary prehistory: a dialogue with redaction criticism / What lesson will history teach? The book of the twelve as history / Divine speaking as godly action in Old Testament narrative: the metaphysics of Exodus 14 / Inhabiting the story: the use of the Bible in the interpretation of history / Iain Provan -- Murray A. Rae -- Walter Sundberg -- C. Stephen Evans -- Gregory J. Laughery -- David Lyle Jeffrey -- Karl Möller -- Christopher Seitz -- Neil B. MacDonald -- Stephen I. Wright. Rethinking history. 11. 12. Tradition and history. 13. 14. History and narrative. 15. 16. History and biblical interpretation. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Publisher's description: This volume well illustrates the Christian adage of faith pushes reason to achieve goals previously unsuspected but still proper to itself. The last few centuries have seen the development of an epistemology and an understanding of history that never leave the closed system thinking of both Modernism and Post-Modernism. In biblical studies their child is the Historical Critical Method. The essays presented here respect the need and fruitfulness of a critical historiography while beginning the much-needed process of correcting the philosophical tenets underlying much modern and postmodern biblical research. The result is a book that mediates a faith understanding, both theoretical and practical, of how to read the Bible authentically as a Christian today.