Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Methods
- 1 A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism
- 2 Historical Criticism
- 3 Philosophical Hermeneutics
- 4 Literary Criticism
- 5 Rhetorical Criticism
- 6 Intertextuality
- 7 Social-Scientific Criticism
- Part II Frameworks/Stances
- Part III Reception
- Scripture Index
- General Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
4 - Literary Criticism
from Part I - Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2022
Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Methods
- 1 A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism
- 2 Historical Criticism
- 3 Philosophical Hermeneutics
- 4 Literary Criticism
- 5 Rhetorical Criticism
- 6 Intertextuality
- 7 Social-Scientific Criticism
- Part II Frameworks/Stances
- Part III Reception
- Scripture Index
- General Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
The essay discusses the development of literary criticism and its various approaches, such as narrative criticism, reader-response criticism, and ideological criticism. Concepts such the implied author, text, and implied reader are also introduced, providing greater clarity of the principles employed by literary critics engaged in the narrative exegesis of the text.
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation , pp. 73 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Further Reading
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Bal, Mieke. Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories. ISBL. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.Google Scholar
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Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Fowler, Robert. Let the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1991.Google Scholar
Lozada, Francisco Jr. John: An Introduction and Study Guide: History, Community, and Ideology. T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the New Testament. London: Bloomsbury 2020.Google Scholar
Lozada, Francisco Jr. A Literary Reading of John 5: Text as Construction. StBibLit 20. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.Google Scholar
Malbon, E. Struthers. In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark’s Gospel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Powell, Mark Allan. What Is Narrative Criticism? GBS, NT Series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Segovia, Fernando F. “‘And They Began to Speak in Their Own Tongues’: Competing Modes of Discourse in Contemporary Biblical Interpretation.” Pages 1–32 in Reading from This Place. Volume 1: Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in the United States. Edited by Segovia, Fernando F. and Tolbert, Mary Ann; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Segovia, Fernando F., ed. “What Is John?” Volume 1: Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel. SBL SymS 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Sternberg, Meir. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Reading and the Drama of Reading. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Tolbert, Mary Ann. Sowing the Gospel: Mark’s World in Literary-Historical Perspective. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.Google Scholar