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| Preface | |
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| The Aims and Scope of Hermeneutics | |
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| Toward a Definition of Hermeneutics | |
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| What Should We Hope to Gain from a Study of Hermeneutics? | |
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| Differences between "Philosophical Hermeneutics" and More Traditional Philosophical Thought, and Their Relation to Explanation and Understanding | |
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| Preliminary and Provisional Understanding (Pre-understanding) and the Hermeneutical Circle | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Hermeneutics in the Contexts of Philosophy, Biblical Studies, Literary Theory, and the Social Self | |
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| Further Differences from More Traditional Philosophical Thought: Community and Tradition; Wisdom or Knowledge? | |
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| Approaches in Traditional Biblical Studies: The Rootedness of Texts Located in Time and Place | |
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| The Impact of Literary Theory on Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation: The New Criticism | |
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| The Impact of Literacy Theory: Reader-Response Theories | |
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| Wider Dimensions of Hermeneutics: Interest, Social Sciences, Critical Theory, Historical Reason, and Theology | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| An Example of Hermeneutical Methods: The Parables of Jesus | |
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| The Definition of a Parable and Its Relation to Allegory | |
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| The Plots of Parables and Their Existential Interpretation | |
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| The Strictly Historical Approach: J�licher, Dodd, Jeremias | |
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| The Limits of the Historical Approach: A Retrospective View? | |
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| The Rhetorical Approach and Literary Criticism | |
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| Other Approaches: The New Hermeneutic, Narrative Worlds, Postmodernity, Reader Response, and Allegory | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| A Legacy of Perennial Questions from the Ancient World: Judaism and the Ancient Greeks | |
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| The Christian Inheritance: The Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism | |
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| The Literature of Greek-Speaking Judaism | |
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| Jewish Apocalyptic Literature around the Time of Christ | |
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| The Greek Roots of Interpretation: The Stoics | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| The New Testament and the Second Century | |
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| The Old Testament as a Frame of Reference or Pre-understanding: Paul and the Gospels | |
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| Hebrews, 1 Peter, and Revelation: The Old Testament as Pre-understanding | |
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| Does the New Testament Employ Allegorical Interpretation or Typology? | |
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| Passages in Paul That Might Be "Difficult": Septuagint or Hebrew? | |
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| Old Testament Quotations in the Gospels, 1 Peter, and the Epistle to the Hebrews | |
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| Second-Century Interpretation and Hermeneutics | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| From the Third to the Thirteenth Centuries | |
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| The Latin West: Hippolytus, Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome | |
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| Alexandrian Traditions: Origen; with Athanasius, Didymus and Cyril | |
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| The Antiochene School: Diodore, Theodore, John Chrysostom, and Theodoret | |
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| The Bridge to the Middle Ages: Augustine and Gregory the Great | |
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| The Middle Ages: Nine Figures from Bede to Nicholas of Lyra | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Reform, the Enlightenment, and the Rise of Biblical Criticism | |
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| Reform: Wycliffe, Luther, Melanchthon | |
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| Further Reform: William Tyndale and John Calvin | |
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| Protestant Orthodoxy, Pietism, and the Enlightenment | |
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| The Rise of Biblical Criticism in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Ten Leaders of Biblical Criticism in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Schleiermacher and Dilthey | |
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| Influences, Career, and Major Works | |
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| Schleiermacher's New Conception of Hermeneutics | |
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| Psychological and Grammatical Interpretation: The Comparative and the Divinatory; The Hermeneutical Circle | |
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| Further Themes and an Assessment of Schleiermacher | |
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| The Hermeneutics of Wilhelm Dilthey | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Rudolf Bultmann and Demythologizing the New Testament | |
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| Influences and Earlier Concerns | |
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| Bultmann's Notions of "Myth" | |
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| Existential Interpretation and Demythologizing: Specific Examples | |
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| Criticisms of Bultmann's Program as a Whole | |
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| The Subsequent Course of the Debate: Left-Wing and Right-Wing Critics | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Some Mid-Twentieth-Century Approaches: Barth, the New Hermeneutic, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and Barr's Semantics | |
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| Karl Barth's Earlier and Later Hermeneutics | |
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| The So-Called New Hermeneutic of Fuchs and Ebeling | |
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| Structuralism and Its Application to Biblical Studies | |
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| Post-Structuralism and Semantics as Applied to the Bible | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutics: The Second Turning Point | |
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| Background, Influences, and Early Life | |
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| Truth and Method Part I: Critique of "Method" and the "World" of Art and Play | |
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| Truth and Method Part II: Truth and Understanding in the Human Sciences | |
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| Truth and Method Part III: Ontological Hermeneutics and Language, with Assessments | |
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| Further Assessments of the Three Parts of Truth and Method | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| The Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur | |
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| Background: Early Life, Influences, and Significance | |
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| The Middle Period: The Interpretation of Freud, The Conflict of Interpretations, and Metaphor | |
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| The Later Period: Time and Narrative | |
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| Oneself as Another: The Identity of the Self, "Otherness," and Narrative | |
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| Oneself as Another: Implications for Ethics; Other Later Works | |
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| Five Assessments: Text, Author's Intention, and Creativity | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| The Hermeneutics of Liberation Theologies and Postcolonial Hermeneutics | |
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| Definition, Origins, Development, and Biblical Themes | |
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| Gustavo Guti�rrez and the Birth of Liberation Theology | |
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| The Second Stage: "Base Communities" and Jos� Porfirio Miranda in the 1970s | |
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| The Second Stage Continued: Juan Luis Segundo, J. Severino Croatto, Leonardo Boff, and Others | |
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| The Third Stage: Postcolonial Hermeneutics from the 1980s to the Present | |
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| A Further Assessment and Evaluation | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Feminist and Womanist Hermeneutics | |
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| The Public Visibility and Ministry of Women from Earliest Times | |
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| First- and Second-Wave Feminism and Feminist Hermeneutics | |
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| Elisabeth Sch�ssler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her: The Argument | |
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| Elisabeth Sch�ssler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her: An Evaluation | |
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| The Fragmentation of the Second Wave | |
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| Womanist Hermeneutics | |
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| A Provisional Assessment of Feminist Hermeneutics | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Reader-Response and Reception Theory | |
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| Reader-Response Theory: Its Origins and Diversity | |
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| An Evaluation and the Application of the Theory to Biblical Studies | |
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| Is Allegorical Interpretation a Subcategory of Reader-Response Theory? A Suggestion | |
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| The Recent Turn to Reception Theory and Hans Robert Jauss | |
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| Reception Theory and Specific Biblical Passages | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Postmodernism and Hermeneutics | |
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| Is Postmodernity Compatible with Christian Faith? Three Possible Answers | |
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| European Postmodernism: Jacques Derrida (with the later Barthes) | |
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| European Postmodernism: Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard (with Jean Baudrillard) | |
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| European Postmodernism: Michel Foucault; Knowledge and Power | |
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| American Postmodernism: Richard Rorty (with the Later Stanley Fish) | |
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| Recommended Initial Reading | |
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| Some Concluding Comments | |
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| Divine Agency and the Authority of Scripture | |
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| Advances in Linguistics and Pragmatics: Politeness Theory | |
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| Brevard Childs and the Canonical Approach | |
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| Fuller Meaning, Typology, and Allegorical Interpretation | |
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| Catholic Biblical Scholarship and the Two Great Turning Points | |
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| Selective Bibliography | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Sources | |