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READINGS
M-Sept. 11
Miller, “Reading the Bible
Historically,” 17--32
Viviano, “Source Criticism,”
35--57 in To Each Its Own Meaning
Van A. Harvey, The Historian
and the Believer : The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief
M-Sept. 18
Daniel MARGUERAT, The First
Christian Historian, chapter 1, “How Luke Wrote History” (duplicated material)
M-Sept. 25
Sweeney, “Form Criticism,”
58 – 89
Di Vito, “Tradition Historical
Criticism,” 90 – 104, in To Each its Own Meaning
Vernon K. Robbins, Exploring
the Texture of Texts : A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation
M-Oct. 2
Streete, “Redaction Criticism,”105-121
in To Each its Own Meaning.
Mieke Bal, Murder and difference
: gender, genre, and scholarship on Sisera's death
M-Oct. 9
Martin, “Social Scientific
Criticism,” 125 – 141 in To Each its Own Meaning
Brian K. Blount, Cultural
Interpretation : Reorienting New Testament Criticism
M-Oct. 16
Patte, “Structural Criticism,”
183ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Patte, The Religious Dimensions
of Biblical Texts : Greimas's Structural Semiotics and Biblical Exegesis
M-Oct. 23
Beardsley, “Poststructuralist
Criticism,” 253ff in To Each its Own Meaning
George Aichele, et al editors
The Postmodern Bible : The Bible and Culture Collective
M-Oct. 30
Callaway, “Canonical criticism,”
142 – 155 in to Each its Own Meaning
Elisabeth Schussler-Fiorenza
(Editor), Searching the Scriptures : A Feminist Introduction (suggested:
Emily Cheney, She Can Read : Feminist Reading Strategies for Biblical Narrative)
M-Nov. 6
Gunn, “Narrative Criticism,”
201ff in To Each its Own Meaning
R. S. Sugirtharajah (Editor),
The Postcolonial Bible and Gerald O. West, The Academy of the Poor : Towards
a Dialogical Reading of the Bible
M-Nov. 13
McKnight,“Reader Response
Criticism,”230ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Cristina Grenholm and Daniel
Patte (Editors) Reading Israel in Romans : Legitimacy and Plausibility
of Divergent Interpretations
M-Nov. 27
Tull, “Rhetorical Criticism
and Intertextuality,” 156ff. in To Each its Own
Meaning
Daniel Patte, Ethics of
Biblical Interpretation : A Reevaluation
M-Dec. 4
Nolan Fewell, “Reading the
Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism,” 268ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Elisabeth Schüssler
Fiorenza, Rhetoric and Ethic : the Politics of Biblical Studies.
M-Dec. 11
Segovia, “Reading the Bible
Ideologically: Socioeconomic Criticism,” 283ff in To Each its Own Meaning
Emmanuel Levinas, Richard
A. Cohen New Talmudic Readings and Roger Burggraeve, “The Bible Gives to
Thought : Lévinas on the Possibility and Proper Nature
of Biblical Thinking.”