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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The New Testament as Sacred Scripture | |
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| The Problem and Project of New Testament Interpretation | |
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| Introduction to the Project | |
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| The Objectives of New Testament Interpretation | |
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| The Meaning of Meaning | |
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| Hermeneutics as Inquiry into Interpretation | |
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| The New Testament as Word of God | |
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| The Linguistic Expression "Word of God": A Metaphor | |
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| The Referent of "Word of God": Symbolic Revelation | |
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| The Bible as Word of God: Sacrament | |
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| Theological Reflection on Scripture as Word of God: The Sacred Character of the Bible | |
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| Revelation | |
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| Inspiration | |
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| Infallibility and Inerrancy | |
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| Authority and Normativity | |
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| The Role of Faith in Biblical Interpretation | |
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| The New Testament as the Church's Book | |
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| The Meaning of the Claim | |
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| The Meaning of Tradition and Its Relation to the New Testament | |
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| Tradition and the Historical Consciousness of the Church | |
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| Tradition as Foundation, Content, and Mode of the Church's Effective Historical Consciousness | |
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| Foundation | |
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| Content | |
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| Mode | |
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| The Role of Tradition in the Interpretation of the New Testament | |
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| The Hermeneutical Dialectic Between Scripture and Tradition | |
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| Canon as a Paradigmatic Instance of the Dialectical Relationship Between Scripture and Tradition | |
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| Faith, Tradition, and the Interpretation of Scripture | |
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| Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture | |
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| The World Behind the Text: History, Imagination, and the Revelatory Text | |
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| Reformulating the Question of the "Historical Jesus" | |
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| The Text and Its Subject Matter | |
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| The Paschal Imagination as Agent and Object of the Revelatory Text | |
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| The Relation Among the Three Levels: Actual, Historical, and Proclaimed | |
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| Implications for Interpretation of the Relation of the Text to Its Subject Matter: The Problem of Methodology | |
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| The Terminology | |
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| Various Methodological Approaches to the Text | |
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| Historical Approaches | |
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| Literary Approaches | |
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| Psychological and Sociological Approaches | |
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| Ideology Criticism Approaches | |
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| Theological, Religious, and Spirituality Approaches | |
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| Exegesis, Criticism, and Hermeneutics | |
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| Exegesis | |
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| Criticism | |
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| Hermeneutics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The World of the Text: Witness, Language, and the Revelatory Text | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Text as Witness | |
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| When Is Recourse to a Witness Necessary? | |
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| Who Can Testify? | |
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| What Is Testimony? | |
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| How Does Testifying Occur? | |
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| The Text as Language | |
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| General Characteristics of Language | |
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| The Text as Written Discourse | |
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| The Analogy of Written Discourse with Dialogue | |
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| Inscription and Distanciation | |
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| Ideal Meaning Versus Authorial Intention | |
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| The Text as Art Object and as Work of Art | |
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| The Text as Classic | |
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| Methodology and the Revelatory Text | |
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| The World Before the Text: Meaning, Appropriation, and the Revelatory Text | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Interpretation as Process: The Dialectic of Explanation and Understanding | |
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| Interpretation as Product: Meaning | |
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| Criteria of Valid Interpretation | |
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| The World Before the Text | |
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| Appropriation: Transformative Understanding of the Subject Matter of the Text | |
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| From the First Naivete to the Second Naivete | |
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| Understanding of Meaning as Appropriation | |
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| Aesthetic Surrender | |
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| Critical Existential Interpretation | |
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| A Case Study: A Feminist Interpretation of John 4: 1-42 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Approach: Feminist Critical Hermeneutics | |
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| Starting Point of Feminist Criticism | |
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| Feminist Criticism as Liberationist Criticism | |
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| Suspicion and Retrieval | |
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| Feminist Critical Strategy | |
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| Translation | |
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| Focusing on Texts with Liberating Potential | |
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| Raising Women to Visibility | |
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| Revealing the Text's "Secrets" | |
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| Rescuing the Text from Misinterpretation | |
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| Historical and Literary Presuppositions | |
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| Historical Presuppositions | |
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| Literary Presuppositions | |
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| Theological Focus of the Story: Mission | |
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| The Identity and Role of the Samaritan Woman: Christian Disciple-Apostle | |
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| Results of Feminist Interpretation | |
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| Hermeneutical Appropriation | |
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| Scripture Index | |
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| Index | |