Biblical Interpretation and Method: Essays in Honour of John Barton
Katharine J. Dell and Paul M. Joyce
Abstract
Since the rise of critical biblical study in the nineteenth century, there has been a revolution in the way that we interpret the Bible and in the methods we employ to facilitate our reading. Professor John Barton has been a major recent influence upon such developments and this volume reflects upon his contribution. A generation of scholars has engaged with, adopted, and further developed Professor Barton's nuanced and careful explication of method, as exemplified particularly in his book Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study. The book divides into two parts. In the first, older ... More
Since the rise of critical biblical study in the nineteenth century, there has been a revolution in the way that we interpret the Bible and in the methods we employ to facilitate our reading. Professor John Barton has been a major recent influence upon such developments and this volume reflects upon his contribution. A generation of scholars has engaged with, adopted, and further developed Professor Barton's nuanced and careful explication of method, as exemplified particularly in his book Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study. The book divides into two parts. In the first, older methods in biblical studies such as source criticism and textual criticism are reviewed, both as methods and in relation to worked examples. In the second part, newer types of criticism such as sociological, feminist, and post-colonial readings are explored, again in relation to particular texts and examples. The book asks questions about the benefits and shortcomings of the methodological tools in our biblical critical tool-box and about the way texts are themselves brought to life in ever fresh interpretative and often interdisciplinary contexts.
Keywords:
critical biblical study,
Professor John Barton,
Bible,
textual criticism,
source criticism,
post-colonial readings
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199645534 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199645534.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Katharine J. Dell, editor
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge; Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Paul M. Joyce, editor
Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, King's College London
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