The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation - Hardcover

Osborne, Grant R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0830812725 ISBN 13: 9780830812721

Publisher: Intervarsity Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Recipient of a Christianity Today 1993 Critics Choice Award!In this comprehensive and up-to-date volume, Grant R. Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to move from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons.Osborne contends that hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context--a movement between the horizon of the text and the horizon of the reader that spirals nearer and nearer toward the intended meaning of the text and its significance for today.He develops his thesis in each of three sections: the first covering general hermeneutics (grammar, semantics, syntax, backgrounds), the second covering hermeneutics and genre, and the third covering applied hermeneutics. Along the way, he offers assessments of recent developments from redaction criticism to reader response criticism. In two appendixes he also addresses the

About this title

About the Author

Osborne (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He also serves as series editor for the IVP New Testament Commentary Series.

Review

Postmodernism and its common denial of any objective meaning is a major challenge to the church. This is a resource for that battle. (PJC for Liturgy, Hymnody, & Pulpit Quarterly Book Review, Christmastide 2007)

Edition details

• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830812725
• ISBN 13: 9780830812721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 499