Old Testament Exegesis: A Guide to the Methodology, Second Edition (Resources for Biblical Study 39)

Cover......Page 1
OLD TESTAMENT EXEGESIS: A Guide to the Methodology......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface to the English Edition......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Foreword to the 12th Edition......Page 20
Translator\'s Preface to the English Version, second printing......Page 24
Part One: Introduction......Page 26
A. THE TASK OF OLD TESTAMENT EXEGESIS......Page 28
I . The Value and Limits of Methodological Direction......Page 30
II. The Employment of Fantasy and Imagination......Page 31
I . The Stock of Methods......Page 39
II . Grouping the Methods......Page 40
III. Interdependence of the Methods......Page 42
IV. Characterizing the Individual Methods......Page 43
V. Concerning the Question of the Expansion of the Stock of Methods......Page 45
A. BIBLIOGRAPHIC AIDS......Page 49
D. GRAMMARS......Page 50
E. CONCORDANCES......Page 51
G. INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS......Page 52
I . INFORMATION ON SPECIFIC TOPICS......Page 53
J. BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY......Page 54
K. THE HISTORY AND SOCIAL LIFE OF ISRAEL......Page 55
L. ISRAEL\'S ENVIRONMENT......Page 56
N. OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY......Page 58
O. IMPORTANT OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTAR1ES......Page 59
P. TECHNIQUES OF SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE......Page 60
Part Two: The Methods......Page 62
Α. THE TASK......Page 64
I . Relationship to Literary Criticism......Page 65
II. The Procedural Step......Page 66
III. Prineiples for the Text Critical Decision......Page 67
C. RESULTS......Page 69
D. LITERATURE......Page 70
I. The Overarching Question of the Development of an Old Testament Text......Page 72
II . Determining the Task of Literary Criticism......Page 76
I. The Question of a Text\'s Literary Integrity......Page 78
II. Methodological Principles for the Question of a Text\'s Literary Integrity......Page 79
III. The Question of Larger Literary Contexts......Page 82
IV. Summary of the Literary Critical Procedure......Page 83
C. RESULTS......Page 84
D. LITERATURE......Page 85
I. Determination......Page 88
II. Terminology......Page 89
I. Relationship to Literary Criticism......Page 90
II. Transmission Historical Processes......Page 91
III. Methodological Questions for the Analytical Process......Page 93
V. Applications for the Transmission Historical Approach......Page 94
VI. Summary of the Procedure of Transmission History......Page 95
III. Transmission History as the History of the Religion and Faith of Israel......Page 96
D. LITERATURE......Page 97
&6 Redaction Historical Approach......Page 100
A. THE TASK......Page 104
I . Relationship to Literary Criticism......Page 105
II. Redaction Historical Processes......Page 106
III. Summary of the Redaction Historical Procedure......Page 114
D. LITERATURE......Page 117
I. The Overarching Question of the Presuppositions of a Text or Its Stages......Page 120
II. Starting Point......Page 121
III. Determination......Page 125
IV. Tenninology......Page 126
I. Constituent Questions......Page 127
II. Concerning the Question of the Linguistic Shape......Page 128
III. Determining the Genre......Page 131
IV. The Question of the Genre History......Page 134
V. Regarding the Question of the Life Setting......Page 135
I. Result of the Question of the Linguistic Shaping and the Determination of Genre......Page 140
III. Results of the Question of the Life Setting......Page 141
D. LITERATURE......Page 142
I. Starting Point......Page 146
II. Determination......Page 148
III. Terminology......Page 149
II. Areas of Tradition Historical Inquiry......Page 150
III. Recognizing Fixed Contents......Page 153
IV. The Concept History Approaeh......Page 154
V. The Tradition Historical Approach as Historical Process......Page 158
VI. The Tradition Historical Approach and the History of Motifs......Page 159
VII. Steps of the Tradition Historical Investigation of a Text......Page 160
II. Insight into Connections......Page 165
D. LITERATURE......Page 166
I. Dating a Text......Page 168
II. The Contemporary History and Social Environment of a Text......Page 169
III. Identifying the External Realities Mentioned in the Text......Page 170
IV. Determining Author and Addressee......Page 171
V. Concerning Materialistic Historical Interpretation of Old Testament Texts......Page 172
VI. Overview of the Approach to the Historical Setting......Page 173
D. LITARATURE......Page 174
Part Three: Purpose......Page 176
A. THE TASK......Page 178
B. RELATIONSHIP TO THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES......Page 181
I. Interpreting the Text in Its Own Formative Arena......Page 183
II. Interpreting the Text in Its Old Testament Development......Page 188
D. CONSIDERING THE TEXT\'S HISTORICAL MEANING IN LIGHT OF THE PRESENT......Page 191
Ε. SUGGESTION FOR PROCEEDING WITH THE ACQUISITION AND PRESENTATION OF THE INTERPRETATION......Page 192
F. TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT......Page 193
G. LITARATURE......Page 194
Part Four: Illustration......Page 196
A. FIRST PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW TEXT......Page 198
I. Concept of the Text as Component of Today\'s World......Page 199
II. Concept of the Text as a Component of Its Historical World......Page 200
C. METHODOLOGICALLY DIRECTED PROCEDURES......Page 207
II. The Question of the Text\'s Development......Page 208
III. The Question of the Presuppositions of the Stages of Gen 28:10-22......Page 218
I. The Individual Transmission Stages......Page 224
III. Considering the Text\'s Movement o f Meaning in Light of Our Present Time......Page 226
APPENDIX: LITERATURE ILLUSTRATING THE EXEGETICAL TREATMENT OF A TEXT......Page 227