Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Precritical interpretation of biblical narrative
  • Change in interpretation: the eighteenth century
  • Anthony Collins: meaning, reference, and prophecy
  • Hermeneutics and meaning-as-reference
  • Biblical hermeneutics and religious apologetics
  • Apologetics, criticism, and the loss of narrative interpretation
  • Hermeneutics and biblical authority in German thought
  • The quest for a unitary meaning
  • Herder on the Bible: the realistic spirit in history
  • The lack of realism in German letters
  • Strauss's perfection of the "mythical" option
  • Hermeneutical options at the turn of the century
  • Myth and narrative meaning: a question of categories
  • The hermeneutics of understanding
  • "Understanding" and narrative continuity.