One Text, Thousand Methods: Studies in Honor of Sjef Van Tilborg

by Ulrich Berges and Patrick Chatelion Counet

Essays in this volume describe the shift in biblical exegesis within the last several decades from the interpretation of biblical texts as the outcome of historical development, or diachronic methodology, to the exploration of the text as the result of a reading process rather than a historical process, or synchronic methodology. Each essay examines a text from the Old or New Testament through the lens of one of the many modern synchronic methods...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0391042300
• ISBN13: 9780391042308
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 368 Pages