Hermeneutics An Introduction

includes index and biblioraphy

The aims and scope of Hermeneutics Hermeneutics in the contexts of philosophy,biblical studies,literary theory,and the social self An example of Hermeneutical methods: the parables of jesus A legacy of perennial questions from the ancient world:Judaism and the ancient greeks The new testament and the second century From the third to the thirteenth centuries Reform,the enlightenment,and the rise of biblical criticism Schleiermacher and dilthey Rudolf bultmann and demythologizing the new testament Some mid-twentieth-century approaches:Barth,the new Hermeneutic,structuralism,post structuralism,and barr`s semantics Hans-georg gadamer`s Hermeneutics:the second turning point The Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur The Hermeneutics of liberation theologies and postcolonial Hermeneutics