INTRODUCTION TO THE SACRED SCRIPTURES

OUTLINE OF THE LECTURE Exegesis and Hermeneutics Three Worlds of Interpretation Rabbinic Interpretation  (see also the class handout) History of Biblical Interpretation: From the Fathers to Reformation  (See also the class handout) The Historical-Critical Method (see also the class handout) Contemporary Approaches (See also the handout) Paul Ricoeur on Hermeneutics