PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

A. The State of the Question Today
B. Purpose of This Document

A. Historical-Critical Method
1. History of the Method
2. Principles
3. Description
4. Evaluation
B. New Methods of Literary Analysis
1. Rhetorical Analysis
2. Narrative Analysis
3. Semiotic Analysis
C. Approaches Based on Tradition
1. Canonical Approach
2. Approach through Recourse to Jewish Traditions of Interpretation
3. Approach by the History of the Influence of the Text (Wirkungsgeschichte)
D. Approaches That Use the Human Sciences
1. Sociological Approach
2. The Approach through Cultural Anthropology
3. Psychological and Psychoanalytical Approaches
E. Contextual Approaches
1. The Liberationist Approach
2. The Feminist Approach
F. Fundamentalist Interpretation

A. Philosophical Hermeneutics
1. Modern Perspectives
2. Usefulness for Exegesis
B. The Meaning of Inspired Scripture
1. The Literal Sense
2. The Spiritual Sense
3. The Fuller Sense

A. Interpretation in the Biblical Tradition
1. Rereadings (Relectures)
2. Relationships Between the Old Testament and the New
3. Some Conclusions
B. Interpretation in the Tradition of the Church
1. Formation of the Canon
2. Patristic Exegesis
3. Roles of Various Members of the Church in Interpretation
C. The Task of the Exegete
1. Principal Guidelines
2. Research
3. Teaching
4. Publications
D. Relationship with Other Theological Disciplines
1. Theology and Presuppositions Regarding Biblical Texts
2. Exegesis and Systematic Theology
3. Exegesis and Moral Theology
4. Differing Points of View and Necessary Interaction

A. Actualization
1. Principles
2. Methods
3. Limits
B. Inculturation
C. Use of the Bible
1. In the Liturgy
2. Lectio Divina
3. In Pastoral Ministry
4. In Ecumenism

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