Reading a New Testament Document Ethically (Academia Biblica)

Reading a New Testament Document Ethically......Page 4
Table of Contets......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
1. READING A NEW TESTAMENT DOCUMENT ETHICALLY: TOWARD DEFINING THE CHALLENGES FOR CREDIBLE TEXTUAL COMMUNICATION......Page 22
1.1 THE ETHICS OF INTERPRETATION......Page 25
1.2 MORAL CHALLENGES ARISING FROM THE HISTORY OF NEW TESTAMENT HERMENEUTICS......Page 28
1.3 HERMENEUTICS AND THE ETHICS OF INTERPRETATION REPHRASED IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATION PROCESSES......Page 31
1.4 AN INTEGRATED ETHICS OF READING AND ACCOUNTABILITY......Page 36
1.4.1 AN ETHICS OF (HISTORICAL) READING......Page 37
1.4.2 AN ETHICS OF ACCOUNTABILITY......Page 39
1.5 SUMMARIZING SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES FOR AN INTEGRATED EXEGETIC HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH TO THE BIBLICAL DOCUMENTS......Page 40
1.6 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TOW ARD UNDERSTANDINGTHE NEW TESTAMENT......Page 42
1.6.1 THE RELIEF-PROVIDING THRUST OF THE STRUCTURAL DIMENSION: IDENTIFYING LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY ASPECTS OF A TEXT......Page 45
1.6.2 THE ORIENTING PERSPECTIVE OF THE HISTORICAL DIMENSION: UNDERSTANDING THE MORAL WORLD OF A TEXT......Page 47
.1 The (Re)orienting Potential of Metaphor......Page 51
.2 Toward a Definition of Metaphor......Page 55
.3 Metaphor and Tradition as Windows through which the Moral World of a Text May Be Explored......Page 58
1.6.3 THE PERSUADING STRATEGY OF THE RHETORICAL DIMENSION: APPROPRIATING THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF A TEXT......Page 63
2. READING EPHESIANS ETHICALLY: TOWARD CONSTRUCTING ITS RHETORICAL SITUATION......Page 68
2.1 READING EPHESIANS FROM A LINGUISTIC-LITERARY PERSPECTIVE: IDENTIFYING IDENTITY- AND BEHAVIOR-ORIENTED ELEMENTS......Page 69
2.1.1 PERICOPE DEMARCATION......Page 70
.2 The First Main Section (Eph. 1:3-3:21)......Page 73
.3 The Second Main Section (Eph. 4:1-6:20)......Page 85
2.1.3 MAJOR IDENTITY- AND BEHAVIOR-ORIENTED ELEMENTS......Page 90
.1 Metaphors......Page 91
.2 Traditional Material......Page 94
.1 Literary Effect......Page 98
.2 Literary Genre......Page 100
2.2 READING EPHESIANS FROM A SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: TOW ARD UNDERSTANDING ITS MORAL WORLD......Page 102
2.2.1 THE TRADITIO-HISTORICAL FACET OF EPHESIANS......Page 103
.1 The Dynamic Reference of Metaphors and Traditional Material......Page 104
.2 The Probable Use of Old Testament Traditions......Page 105
[Excursion: The Functioning of Psalm 68:19 in Ephesians 4:7-13]......Page 106
.3 The Possible Use of Cultic Language from the Qumran Writings......Page 111
.4 The Use of Hellenistic Traditional Material in Ephesians......Page 115
.5 The Use of Christian Traditional Material in Ephesians......Page 120
.6 Conclusions: The Use of Moral Traditions in Ephesians......Page 121
2.2.2 THE SOCIO-CULTURAL FACET OF EPHESIANS......Page 122
2.2.3 THE HISTORICAL-LITERARY FACET OF EPHESIAΝS......Page 127
2.2.4 CONCLUSIONS: THE PRAGMATIC FUNCTION OF A SOCIO-HISTORICAL READING OF EPHESIANS......Page 128
2.3 READING EPHESIANS FROM A RHETORICAL PERSPECTIVE: TOWARD CONSTRUCTING ITS RHETORICAL SITUATION......Page 129
2.3.1 THE EXIGENCY OF A RHETORICAL SITUATION......Page 131
2.3.2 ROLES OF PERSONS WITHIN THE RHETORICAL SITUATION......Page 132
2.3.3 THE RELATION BETWEEN THE HISTORICAL AND RHETORICAL SITUATIONS OF A TEXT......Page 133
2.3.4 CONCLUSIONS: THE PRAGMATIC FUNCTION OF A RHETORICAL READING OF EPHESIANS......Page 134
3.1 THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TEXT AND CONTEXT......Page 138
3.2 READING EPHESIANS RHETORICALLY......Page 139
3.2.1 MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF ANCIENT RHETORIC......Page 140
3.2.2 CHARACTERISTICS OF ANCIENT LETTER WRITING......Page 141
3.2.3 THUS, MAY EPHESIANS BE READ RHETORICALLY?......Page 142
3.3 THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF EPHESIANS: THE IMPLIED FUNCTION OF ITS RHETORICAL STRATEGIES......Page 146
3.3.1 A CLOSER LOOK AΤ THE EPHESIANS GENRE AS REINTERPRETED TRADITION......Page 148
3.3.2 TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL INDICATORS......Page 152
3.3.3 THE PERSUADING POTENTIAL OF METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE......Page 157
.1 The Relation between Metaphor and Parable......Page 158
.2 Jesus Christ as Metaphor and Parable......Page 160
.3 Identification with Christ as Model......Page 163
.2 Person Deictics......Page 166
.4 Relativization of Defects......Page 169
3.3.5 ANALOGIES BETWEEN EPHESIANS AND ANCIENT DELIBERATIVE RHETORIC......Page 170
.1 Future-Directed Statements......Page 171
.3 The Use and Function of Examples......Page 172
.4 Peace and Unity as Subjects for Deliberation......Page 175
3.4 CONCLUSIONS: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF EPHESIANS......Page 177
4.1 WHERE DO WE FIND HOPE? (A CASE STUDY)......Page 180
4.2 THE CONTINUING STORY OF EPHESIANS......Page 185
4.3 IMPLICATIONS OF THE EPHESIANS NATURE FOR CHRISTIAN ETHICS......Page 187
4.3.1 EPHESIANS, THE NEW TESTAMENT, CHRISTIAN ETHOS AND ETHICS......Page 188
4.3.2 THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF EPHESIANS AND THE ONGOING DIALOGUE WITH ITS AUDIENCE/READERS......Page 191
4.3.3 THE COMPLEX NATURE OF EPHESIANS IN CREATIVE TENSION WITH CONTEMPORARY NEEDS......Page 193
4.3.4 THE EPHESIANS COMMUNITY'S IMPLIED IDENTITY AND ETHOS AS CENTERED IN CHRIST......Page 198
4.3.5 THE IMPLIED ETHOS OF EPHESIANS AS COMMUNITY ETHOS......Page 200
4.3.6 THE RHETORICAL ROLE OF "SCRIPTURE" IN EARLY CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE......Page 204
4.3.7 EPHESIANS (AND THE NEW TESTAMENT) AS AUTHORITY FOR CHRISTIAN TRADITION......Page 206
.1 The Focus of New Testament Authority: Responding to the Presence of God, Jesus Christ, and the Spirit......Page 207
.2 The Location of New Testament Authority: Church, Theology, and Religious Experience......Page 209
.3 New Testament Authority, Theology, and Christian Ethics......Page 213
4.4.1 [EXCURSION: A TYPOLOGY OF HISTORICAL PARADIGMS IN (CHRISTIAN) ETHICS]......Page 216
.1 The Classical Phase......Page 217
.2 The Premodern Phase......Page 219
.3 The Modern Phase......Page 220
.4 Recent Trends in Christian Ethics......Page 222
.5 Implications from the Historical Overview......Page 234
4.4.2 EPHESIANS RESPONDING TO DIFFERENT MORAL PARADIGMS......Page 235
.1 Preliminary Conclusions: Ephesians and Moral Identity, Vision, Agency, and Decision-Making......Page 241
.2 Responsibility as the Formation of Moral People, and the Transformation of Society......Page 242
.3 Responsibility as the Information of Moral Action......Page 258
4.5 HERMENEUTICS AS "AN INTEGRATIVE ACT OF IMAGINATION": REVISIONARY CRITERIA FOR AN ETHICAL READING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT......Page 266
POSTSCRIPT......Page 274
WORKS CITED......Page 276
SUMMARY......Page 302
OPSOMMING......Page 304