Methoden der neutestamentlichen Exegese: Eine Einführung für Studium und Lehre
Abstract
Die Methoden der neutestamentlichen Bibelauslegung haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert. Neben die traditionellen Schritte der historisch-kritischen Methode sind neuere Ansätze aus Linguistik, Literaturwissenschaft oder Psychologie getreten. Im vorliegenden Band wird die vielfältige Praxis der Bibelexegese methodisch aufgenommen und in ein gut zu merkendes, integratives Gesamtmodell der Textauslegung überführt. Studierende erhalten so das grundlegende ‚Werkzeug‘ für den wissenschaftlich reflektierten Umgang mit biblischen und anderen Texten. Ein Buch zum Lernen, Lehren und Arbeiten, didaktisch aufbereitet, wichtig für das gesamte Studium, aber auch für die Zeit danach. „Dieses Methodenbuch ist ein wertvoller Baustein zu einer neuen exegetischen Hochschuldidaktik, die Studierende motivieren und zur Exegese befähigen kann.“ Prof. Dr. Gerd Theißen „Ein Lehrbuch, das auf innovative Weise ‚klassische‘ und ‚neuere‘ Methodenschritte in ein Gesamtsystem der Textanalyse überführt.“ Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Eckstein
This study seeks to explore, how Luke presents the narrative portrayal of Philip in Acts utilizing Social Network Analysis (SNA) and presents an interdisciplinary study combining methods from Theology, Social Sciences, and Computer Science. First, we provide a detailed methodological discussion that highlights the overlap between narrative criticism and SNA. Combining both, we present results in a mathematical computational social networks using exegetical methods. SNA presents different perspectives on one of those minor actors, which Luke presents in more detail, and his relation to the nascent Christian movement in Acts. This study shows that it is in the relational aspects and the crossing of social, cultural, and religious distances that are key to understanding Luke’s story of Philip’s ministry. In particular, he presents Philip as a dynamic pioneering missionary. These results also raise new questions for further research, and show new perspective on biblical texts
This article surveys subjects and questions in New Testament scholarship in the context of which scholars refer to the translocal links among early Christian communities and the people who embody them. Such references appear in comparisons between early Christian communities and ancient associations, in reconstructions of the history of early Christianity, in various issues of New Testament introduction (including the intended readers of the Gospels), in discussions of the material basis of theological diversity and unity in the New Testament and of the understanding of the church (the relationship between local community and the larger entity of the churches/the Church), and in studies of the argumentative strategies of New Testament books (new rhetoric, rhetorical criticism). In closing, the article refers to new questions and methods where translocal links provide important raw data or additional information, that is, various forms of social network analysis, issues of early Christian conceptions of space and the application of the questions and insights of critical spaciality. In view of the significance of the translocal links between early Christian communities for various issues in New Testament scholarship, it is surprising that they have not hitherto been examined comprehensively.
Peter Ackroyd's use of London as a setting, character and space.
The potential relevance of biblical ethics for today is a contested issue. What is the significance of individual ethical texts of the Bible, and how – if at all – can they be dialogue partners for the ethical discourses of the 21st century? This article suggests and discusses a number of interpretative steps on the way towards a fruitful dialogue between the biblical text and contemporary concerns of religious-ethical life. After some introductory remarks on the use of the Bible in a Christian context, the article submits six different parameters of practical hermeneutics in two sections: 1. Text and culture; and 2. Text and canon. From the perspective of the parameter of canonical centrality, for example, it is argued that the biblical narrative of love, as it culminates in the gospel of Jesus Christ, stands out as a primus inter pares reference point for the dialogue between biblical ethics and ethics today. In the course of a nuanced discussion of these hermeneutical parameters, the article also provides a critical review of a number of alternative proposals on the relationship of the Bible and ethics.
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