Title
My Reading? Your Reading? Author(ity) and Postmodern Hermeneutics
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2014
Publication Details
This book chapter was originally published as:
Kent, G. J. R. (2014). My reading? Your reading? Author(ity) and postmodern hermeneutics. In R. Cole and P. Petersen (Eds), Hermeneutics, intertextuality and the contemporary meaning of scripture (pp. 95-114). Hindmarsh, Australia: ATF Press.
ISBN: 9781921817977
ANZSRC / FoR Code
220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
Reportable Items
B1
Abstract
This essay examines the postmodern theories relevant to biblical hermeneutics, then examines two 'special interest' readings of the book of Ruth - Queer and Postcolonial - and evaluates them. It examines James Barr's critique of postmodern 'readings', then attempts an original reading - Racist - as a reductio ad absurdum to demonstrate that postmodern relativity can sustain no arguments against fascism. It examines fundamentalist flirtation with postmodernism and critiques Walter Brueggemann's early optimism. It then evaluates the usefulness and otherwise of postmodern hermeneutics.
Recommended Citation
Kent, G. J. R. (2014). My reading? Your reading? Author(ity) and postmodern hermeneutics. In R. Cole and P. Petersen (Eds), Hermeneutics, intertextuality and the contemporary meaning of scripture (pp. 95-114). Hindmarsh, Australia: ATF Press.
Comments
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This book may be accessed from the publisher here.
Staff and students of Avondale College may access Hermeneutics, intertextuality and the contemporary meaning of scripture from Avondale College Library (220.6 C67).
At the time of writing Grenville Kent was affiliated with Wesley Institute