Semeia 4: Paul Ricoeur on Biblical Hermeneutics

by John Dominic Crossan

Publisher:

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

, 1975

Overview

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.

Key Features

• Key perspectives on biblical criticsim
• Includes bibliographies and index

Contents

Top Highlights

“It is here that he describes his discovery that there are two kinds of hermeneutics, one reductive: hermeneutics of suspicion like those of Freud, Marx, and Nietzche; the other restorative: moving toward a recollection of the original meaning of the symbol.” (Page 6)

“The problem is a question of what happens when the objective meaning of written language is translated into the personal act of speaking. What happens when the world of the reader and the world of the text merge into one another?” (Page 9)

“Because the whole is more than the sum of the parts, the relationship of one to the other requires a judgment, that is, an interpretation.” (Page 11)

“all of his work is at least obliquely related to the interpretation of scripture” (Page 2)

“Language is metaphorical; it needs an art of deciphering” (Page 11)

Contributors

• Loretta Dornisch
• Paul Ricoeur

Product Details

• Title: Semeia 4: Paul Ricoeur on Biblical Hermeneutics
• Editor: John Dominic Crossan
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
• Publication Date: 1975
• Pages: 148

About John Dominic Crossan

John Dominic Crossan, professor emeritus at DePaul University, is widely regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Historical Jesus and Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. He lives in Minneola, Florida.