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BIBL 550 - Hermeneutics

Teacher Dr. S. Schumacher
Semester Spring Duration 8 Weeks
Frequency Every three years
Credits 5 ECTS Workload 150 Hours
Module format Intensive
Applicability This module is essential in the reading and understanding of the Bible and all academic texts. As such it is a required course for all students.
Course structure See module and courses
Contact time 40 Hours Self-Study 110 Hours
Participation requirement See access to the program
Evaluation
Evaluation Hours Weight
Phase 1 50 20%
Reading & Reflection paper
50 20%
Phase 2 40 50%
Participation
30 10%
Presentation
5 10%
Exam 5 30%
Phase 3 60 30%
Research Paper
60 30%
Total 150 100%
Content of the Module This course will deal with the two main aspects of hermeneutics: How do we understand? and, how do we interpret texts? It will explore different epistemological as well as various hermeneutical approaches. Particular attention will be given to more recent hermeneutical approaches. The course wants to assist the student to develop his own hermeneutical approach to Evangelical/Pentecostal provenience.
Learning Objectives

A. General Learning Objectives

    • TraceUnderstand and be able to explain the history of interpretationbiblical interpretation.
    • Discuss and describe the hermeneutical approaches used duringof the First1st Centurycentury CE.
    • ProvideIdentify key figures in biblical scholarship within the rationaleframework forof reactionshermeneutics toand within the keylast European figures who determined the hermeneutical discussion forseveral centuries and developbe anable Evangelical/Pentecostalto hermeneuticoutline and explain their hermeneutical approaches to Scripture.
    • EnhanceTo understandinggrasp ofand be able to analyze linguistic, sociological, and cultural aspects for an Evangelical/Pentecostal hermeneutic
    • Introduce the concept of an inclusiveevangelical/Pentecostal learning community in which individual differences are recognized and respectedhermeneutic.


B. Specific Learning Objectives

As a result of the activities and study in this course, the students should be able to:

    • Understandassess, theevaluate, historyand ofdiscuss Biblical interpretation 
    • Awareness of thedifferent hermeneutical approaches of the First Century
    • Understand hermeneutical principles that are valid for a Pentecostal / Evangelical approach to hermeneutics 
    • Compare and contrast linguistic, sociological, and cultural aspects of hermeneutics
    • Understand Christian faith and values in the context of itsbiblical timescholarship over the past several centuries (e.g., in the form of classroom presentations).
    • Appreciateexamine thehermeneutical conceptprinciples for a Pentecostal/Evangelical approach to hermeneutics and contrast them with other hermeneutical approaches.
    • gather and organize hermeneutical elements for a Pentecostal/Evangelical interpretive approach to Scripture.
    • construct one's own hermeneutical approach to Scripture, formulate it carefully, and conclude by classifying or evaluating it in light of theother inclusive learning community
      approaches.
Outline - Introduction
- How do we understand?
- How do we exegete?
- History of hermeneutics
- Rabbinic hermeneutics
- Jesus as Teacher
- Pneumatic hermeneutics
- Elements of Pentecostal Hermeneutics
- Gospel and synoptic tradition
Examination See Evaluation
Core Literature

TextbooksTextbooks::

Archer, Kenneth J. A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty-First Century. London: T&T Clark InternationalInternational, 2004.

Cross, Terry. What Can Pentecostal Theology Offer Evangelical TheologyJPT 10.2 (2002), pp. 44-73.**

Hempelmann, Heinzpeter. Wie wir denken können. Wuppertal, 2000, Ss. 103-112.

Longenecker, Richard N. Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1975, pp. 6-35.**

Maier, Gerhard. Biblical Hermeneutics. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 1994, pp. 333-373.

_______. Biblische Hermeneutik.Hermeneutik. Wuppertal: BrockhausBrockhaus, 1990.
1990, Ss. 295-331.

Maltese, Giovanni. Geisterfahrer zwischen Transzendenz und Immanenz. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2013.**

Riesner, Rainer. Jesus als Lehrer. WUNT,Tübingen: 2.J.C.B. Reihe,Mohr 7,(Paul 3.Siebeck), Aufl.1984, 1988.
Schmidgall/Wendel.Ss. Hermeneutische102-352.

Ansätze

Smith, zuJames Lukas.K. TheologischesA., GesprächThinking 2005.
Schnabel,in E.J.Tongues
. undGrand Neudorfer,Rapids: Heinz-Werner,Eerdmans, Das2010.**

Studium

Thiselton, desAnthony NeuenC. Testaments.New 2.Horizons Bände.in Wuppertal:Hermeneutics. BrockhausZondervan, 1999.1997, pp. 142-178; 204-236.

Yong, Amos. The Spirit of Creation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011).**

**Required Readings

 

Aichele, Georg et al. The Postmodern Bible. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

Archer, Melissa L. “I Was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day”: A Pentecostal Engagement with Worship in the Apocalypse. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2015.**

Barthes, R. The Pleasure of the Text. Translated by Richard Miller. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1975.

Borg, M. and N. T. Wright. The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions. Harper San Francisco, 1999.

Branson, M. L. and C. R. Padilla, eds. Conflict and Context: Hermeneutics in the Americas. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986.

Bultmann, Rudolf. Jesus and the Word. Fontana Books, 1934.

__________. New Testament & Mythology and Other Basic Writings. Translated and edited by Schubert M. Ogden. Fortress Press, 1984.

Conzelmann, H. und A. Lindemann. Arbeitsbuch zum Neuen Testament, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1975.

__________. Interpreting the New Testament. An Introduction to the Principles and Methods of N.T. Exegesis. Peabody, 1988.

Croatto, J. S. Biblical Hermeneutics. Translated by Robert R. Barr. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987.

Crossan, J. D. In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1973.

Crossan, J. D. et al. The Jesus Controversy: Perspectives in Conflict. Philadelphia, PA: Trinity International Press, 1999.

Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.

Davis, Ellen F. and Richard B. Hays, eds. The Art of Reading List:
Scripture.
 Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003.

Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Translated by B. Johnson. The University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Dieterich, Jörg, Hrsg. Streiflichter zur WissenschaftstheorieFriedensau, 1999.

Eagleton, T. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler. Bread Not Stone. Boston, NJ: Beacon Press, 1984.

__________. The Power of Naming. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996.

__________. Wisdom Ways. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001.

Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

__________Language, Hermeneutic, and the Word of God: The Problem of Language in the New Testament and Contemporary Theology. New York: Harper & Row, 1966; reprint: Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979.

Frei, H. W. The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1974.

Frestadius, Simo. Pentecostal Rationality: Epistemology and Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Foursquare Tradition. London/New York: T&T Clark, 2020.**

Froehlich, Karlfried. Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church. Translated and edited by K. Froehlich. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1984.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Philosophical Hermeneutics.Hermeneutics. Translated and Editededited by D. E. Linge. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1976.
Gadamer,

Hans-Georg.

_________. Truth and Method.Method. 2nd ed. Translated and Revisedrevised by J. Weinsheimer and D. G. Marshall. New York, NY: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1975.

Gilligan, C. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s DevelopmentCambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Green, Chris E. W. Toward a Pentecostal Theology of the Lord’s Supper: Foretasting the Kingdom. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2012.

Haacker, Klaus. Biblische Theologie als engagierte ExegeseWuppertal: Brockhaus, 1993.

Habermas, J.Jürgen. On the Pragmatics of Communication.Communication. Edited by Maeve Cooke. Massachusetts: MIT, 1998.

Hegel, G. W. F. Reason in History. Translated by R.S. Hartman. The Liberal Arts Press, 1953.

Kaplan, D. M. Ricoeur’s Critical Theory. New York, NY: State University of NY Press, 2003.

Hempelmann, Heinzpeter. Wie die wahre Welt zur Fabel wurde. Christliches Wahrheitszeugnis und postmoderner Wahrheitspluralismus. 4 Bände. Witten, 2008 (Band 4).

__________. Wie wir denken können. Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 2000.

Kelly, S. Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship. Routledge, 2002.

Kwok, Pui-Ian and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza eds. Women’s Sacred Scriptures. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998.

Land, Steven Jack. Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2010.**

Larkin, William J., Jr. Culture and Biblical Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1998.

Lentricchia, Frank. After the New Criticism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Martin, Lee Roy. The Unheard Voice of God: A Pentecostal Hearing of the Book of Judges. JPSUP 32. Dorset: Deo Publishing, 2008.

McConnell, Frank, ed. The Bible and The Narrative Tradition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1986.

McQueen, Larry R. Joel and the Spirit: The Cry of a Prophetic Hermeneutic. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2009.

Moore, Rickie D. The Spirit of the Old Testament. JPTSup 35. Dorset: Deo Publishing, 2011.

Moore, S. D. Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1989.

_________. Poststructuralism and the New Testament: Derrida and Foucault at the Foot of the Cross. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1994.

Moore-Jumonville, R. The Hermeneutics of Historical Distance: Mapping the Terrain of American Biblical Criticism, 1880-1914. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.

Mosala, I. J. Biblical Hermeneutics and Black Theology in South Africa. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989.

Mouton, E. Reading a New Testament Document Ethically. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Palmer, R. E. Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1969.

Pelikan, J. Jesus Throughthrough the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture.Culture. New Haven:Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985.
Ricoeur,

Pope-Levison, P. and J. R. Levison. Jesus in Global Contexts. Louisville, KY.: Westminster, John Knox Press, 1992.

Potok, C. In the Beginning. Fawcett Crest, NY: Ballantine Books, 1975.

Ricoeur, Paul. Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination.Imagination. Translated by D. Pellauer. Edited by M. I. Wallace. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995.
________.

_________. Freud & Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. Translated by D. Savage. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1970.

_________. From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II. Translated by K. Blamey and J.B. Thompson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991.

_________. Hermeneutics &and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation. Edited &and Translatedtranslated by J.John B. Thompson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, 1981.

_________. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Cristian University Press, 1976.

_________. Oneself as Another. Translated by K. Blamey. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

_________. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. New York, NY: Penguin, 1978.

Said, E. W. Culture and Imperialism. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1993.

Schottroff, Luise, S. Schroer, and M. T. Wacker. Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women’s Perspective. Translated by M. Rumscheidt. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998.

Schnabel, E. J. und Heinz-Werner Neudorfer. Das Studium des Neuen Testaments. 2 Bände. Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 1999.

Stadelmann, Helge. Evangelikales Schriftverständnis: Die Bibel verstehen – der Bibel vertrauen. Muldenhammer Hammerbrücke: Jota Publications, 2005.

Stuhlmacher, Peter. Jesus of Nazareth; Christ of Faith. Translated by S. Schatzmann. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993.

_________. Vom Verstehen des Neuen TestamentsNTD 6. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986.

Sugirtharajah, Rasiah S. The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial

Encounters. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

_________. Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Thomas, John Christopher. The Apocalypse: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2012.

_________. The Spirit of the New Testament. Dorset: Deo Publishing, 2005.

Segovia, Fernando F. and Mary Ann Tolbert, eds. Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998.

Thiselton, A.Anthony C. New Horizons in Hermeneutics.Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997.
Vanhoozer,

Kevin

_________. J.Two HorizonsGrand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980.

Via, Dan Otto. The Parables: Their Literary and Existential Dimension. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967.

Wariboko, Nimi. The Pentecostal Hypothesis: Christ Talks, They Decide. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020.**

Weaver, Walter P. The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Wessels, Antonie. Images of Jesus: How Jesus Is TherePerceived aand MeaningPortrayed in ThisNon-European Text?Cultures. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1990.

West, Cornel. The Cornel West Reader. New York, NY: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.

_________. Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity. Philadelphia, PA: The Bible,Westminster Press, 1982.

Wilder, Amos N. Early Christian Rhetoric: The Reader,Language of the Gospel. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1971.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe and theG. MoralityH. ofvon LiteraryWright. Knowledge.New Zondervan,York, 1998.
NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1969.

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