One Text, A Thousand Methods

A Brill classic now in paperback from SBL Press

Essays in this volume describe the shift in biblical exegesis within the last several decades from the interpretation of biblical texts as the outcome of historical development, or diachronic methodology, to the exploration of the text as the result of a reading process rather than a historical process, or synchronic methodology. The methods discussed include ideology criticism, semantic and poetic analysis, cognitive linguistics, drama theory, narratology, deconstruction, and anthropology, and intertextuality. The authors of this work challenge biblical scholars not to just perform exegesis, but to explore the methods and aims underlying their interpretations.

Features:

Patrick Chatelion Counet is Professor in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.

Ulrich Berges is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He has published mainly on the books of Samuel, Isaiah, Lamentations, Psalms, and Job.