New Testament Interpretation Strategies WT-SST-NT
The course is thought to be a weekly lecture exposing various methods applied in the contemporary New Testament exegesis and theology and following application of the theory into practice by demonstrating samples presented by attendants of the class. Outline of the course:
1. Social memory, collective memory, cultural memory, orality vs. NT studies.
2. Synchronic vs. diachronic approach.
3. Texts as part of a process of communication.
4. Structuralism.
5. Linguistic - syntactic and semantic analysis.
6. Pragmatic analysis and pragmalinguistic.
7. Rhetoricity of the text and rhetorical analysis.
8. Narrative analysis.
9. Diachronic reading - historical-critical method.
10. Textual criticism.
11. Literary criticism.
12. Tradition criticism.
13. Redaction criticism.
14. Social-scientific approach.
15. Canonical exegesis.
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcomes
EK 1: The student acquires a comprehensive knowledge concerning the methods of the interpretation of the New Testament.
EK 2: Having the knowledge the student fosters his abilities and skills for a self-dependent interpretation of biblical passages.
EK 3: The student has a habit of deepening his knowledge and skills in the field of biblical studies.
Assessment criteria
Students prepare and present orally final papers in which they demonstrate the abilities they acquired in the methodology of the New Testament.
Bibliography
The Greek New Testament, B. Aland et alli, Stuttgart 2015.
PBC, Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, Rome 1993.
J. Kręcidło, The Spirit Paraclete and Jesus in the Gospel of John, Kraków 2008 (syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis)
J. Kręcidło, Nowe życie uczniów Jezusa, Warszawa 2009 (narrative analysis and pragmalinguistic).
W. Egger, Metodologia del Nuovo Testamento, Bologna 2002.
T. Söding, Wege der Schriftauslegung. Methodenbuch zum Neuen Testament, Wien 1998.
B.J. Malina, The New Testament World. Insights from Cultural Anthropology, Louisville 2001.
J.B. Breen (ed.), Hearing the New Testament. Strategies for Interpretation, Grand Rapids 2010.
B.M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Stuttgart 1994.
B.M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament. Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Oxford 1992.
J. Assmann, Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination, Cambridge University Press 2011.
M. Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, Chicago 1992.
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