… that Isaiah 60-66 describes an enhanced but essentially historical future for Israel that was not fulfilled , either … interpretation of fulfillment didn’t happen in the NT narrative or in history, then you are pushing it out into … when it comes to interpretation. Do we trust the historicalmethod, with its admitted and unavoidable shortcomings and … ()
… as a movement within first century Judaism. Like any other historical movement, its character and purpose were shaped … scriptures , as the climax to a complex but persistent narrative that could be traced back through the historical … to say about Clement of Alexandria’s adoption of Philo’s method of exegesis—I came across it in Wes Howard-Brook’s … ()
… faith “down to nothing.” He has been reading the work of historically-minded interpreters like Pete Enns and NT … direct arguments out there. In any case, I think that the narrative-historicalmethod may suggest a better approach. The bodily … ()
… Scot McKnight argues that historical Jesus studies must start from the premise that … for a reconstruction of Jesus on the basis of historicalmethods. The situation is actually a little more complicated … Jesus. What I am trying to ask, under the rubric of a narrative-historical hermeneutic, is: How do the texts read … ()
… and sensible piece on the uneasy relationship between historical criticism and evangelicalism that I think is well … is comfortable in principle with the grammatical-historicalmethod, but it is not happy with the way critical tools have … the biblical texts which is at variance with the ostensible narrative; ii) a view of the authors of the texts as … ()
… reading is that as soon as we disconnect the text from its historical context, we can make it mean more or less … it is not easy. But it is the most honest and most relevant method we have for reducing the interpretive disorder that … be done. History is not innocent. It seems to me that the narrative-historicalmethod requires the church to do … ()
… approach that was more concerned to uncover the original historical meaning of the text than to exploit it to meet … postmodernism has helped to relativize biblical-critical methodologies, and it is probably true to say that theology … emerging theologies and the more constructive narrative-historical approach of the New Perspective are … ()
… little ones and dashes them against the rock! (137:8–9) A historical-critical reading of the text has no qualms about … drove the development of highly sophisticated allegorical methods of interpretation in the Patristic period, and it is … in church. I think this makes a sharp point about how the narrative-historicalmethod works. We don’t have to suppose … ()
… the purpose of Jewish apocalyptic was to interpret current historical developments, and to outline, in largely symbolic … about personal salvation arises at the heart of this narrative and should not be separated from it. When Jesus … a thoroughgoing application of the narrative-historicalmethod tells us that we should be able to speak about … ()
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