To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application

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To Each Its Own MeaningAn Introduction
toBiblical Criticisms andTheir Application

• Revised and Expanded Edition
• Edited by Steven L. McKenzie Stephen R. Haynes
• (Louisville/London/Leiden Westminster John Knox,
  1999)

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Part OneTraditional Methods of Biblical
Criticism
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ModernHistorical-Critical Methods

• Historical approach
• Source criticism
• Form criticism
• Tradition-historical criticism
• Redaction criticism

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Historical v. Literary Methods

• Diachronic
• Focus on roots
• Archaeological grounds
• Historical background
• Literary precedents
• Development of text through time
• Key objective uncover authorial intention
• E.g., Dei Verbum

• Synchronic
• Focus on text itself in final form
• Relationships among textual elements
• Interaction between text and reader(s)
• Authorial intention is irretrievable
  (intentional fallacy)
• E.g., Stanley Fish

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Part TwoExpanding the Tradition
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Newer Interpretive Models

• Social-scientific criticism
• Canonical criticism
• Rhetorical criticism Intertextuality

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Part ThreeOverturning the Tradition
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Literary Methods

• Structural criticism
• Narrative criticism
• Reader-response criticism

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Post-Modern Hermeneutics

• Post-structuralist criticism
• Feminist criticism
• Socio-economic criticism