Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in Biblical Narratives : : A Hermeneutical Study of Genesis 21:1-21 / / Krzysztof Piotr Sonek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Sonek, Krzysztof Piotr,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 395
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. General or Special Hermeneutics? --; 2. The Illustrative Pericope Gen 21:1-21 --; 3. A General Hermeneutical Model --; 4. Immanent Knowledge --; 5. Narrative Knowledge --; 6. Transcendental Knowledge --; 7. The General Hermeneutical Model: Corollaries --; Conclusion --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110209754; 9783110238570; 9783110238549; 9783110638165; 9783110219517; 9783110219524; 9783110219494
• ISSN: 0934-2575
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110209754
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Krzysztof Piotr Sonek.

A modern reader studying biblical narratives encounters various literary approaches and ways of understanding interpretive concepts. Hence an attempt to put forward a comprehensive hermeneutical model of reading biblical narratives. Such a model should aim at a synthesis of various approaches, and show how they are interrelated.The book proposes a hermeneutical theory which uses modern approaches to literary texts for the exegesis of biblical narratives. The book discusses three spheres of the reader’s knowledge about reality: immanent, narrative, and transcendental. The move from immanent to transcendental knowledge through the mediation of narrative knowledge results from the mediatory role played by the biblical text, which refers the reader to a transcendent reality. This theory is then applied to the exegesis of Genesis 21:1-21, and involves the evaluation of the New Criticism, rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narrative analysis, reader-response criticism, the historical-critical method, as well as deconstruction. In order to satisfy the postulate of pluralism in interpretation, the hermeneutical theory draws upon a variety of ancient and modern sources such as Aristotle, T. S. Eliot, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Paul Ricœur.