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Interpreting New Testament Narratives
Recovering the Author's Voice
Series: - Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 169
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Narratives are the concrete manifestation of an authorâs subjectivity. They function as that personâs voice, and should be treated with the same respect that is granted to all voices. In Interpreting New Testament Narratives, Eric Douglass develops this ethical perspective, so that narratives are treated as communication, and the authorâs voice is regarded as a valued perspective. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach, Douglass shows how readers engage narratives as mental simulations, creating a temporary possible world that readers enter and experience. To recover communication, readers locate the events of this world in the culture of the intended audience, and translate this meaning into the modern readerâs worldview. Using a staged reading design, this initial reading is followed by readings of critique.
Eric Douglass, M.Div., ThM., M.D., is adjunct faculty at Randolph-Macon College, where he teaches in the religion department. He has presented numerous academic papers in literary theory, and is author of Reading the Bible Ethically (Brill, 2014).
Introduction
1 Reading under Ethics â1âWriting as an Intentional Act â2âReading as an Intentional Act â3âThe Authorâs Voice and the Readerâs Ethics â4âAssumptions, Implications, and Method
2 Communication: Ordinary and Literary â1âOrdinary Communication â2âNarrative Communication: Authors â3âLiterary Communication: Readers â4âLiterary Communication: Authors and Readers â5âDisjunctions: When Communication Fails â6âSummary
3 Locating the Text â1âAn Overview â2âA Two-Self Reading System â3âLocating the Text â4âIdentifying the Intended Audience â5âCharacterizing Otherness â6âSummary
4 Entering the Storyworld â1âWhat is Narrative? â2âAn Introduction to Identification â3âIdentification and Character Construction â4âIdentification and Attachment â5âIdentification and Investment â6âIdentification and Commitment â7âSummary
5 Many Characters, Many Perspectives â1âStrategies for Identification â2âEngaging Other Characters â3âInterest Bias and Evaluative Standard â4âSummary
6 Experiencing the Event â1âMental Simulations and Serious Meaning â2âThe Reading-Self and Modal Realism â3âThe Actual-Self and Moderate Realism â4âThe Experience of Event: Letters to Words â5âThe Experience of Event: Words to Sentences â6âThe Experience of Event: Beyond Sentences â7âSummary
7 Translating Story-Meaning â1âCommunicating Meaning â2âTranslating Meaning: Loyalty â3âTranslating Meaning: Equivalence and Similarity â4âTranslating Meaning: Relevance â5âEvaluating Validity: the Effects of Moderate Realism â6âSummary
8 Markan Examples â1âThe Call of Levi (Mk. 2:14) â2âStorm at Sea (Mk. 4:35â41) â3âThe Woman with a Hemorrhage (Mk. 5:25â34) â4âThe Parable of the Sower (Mk. 4:3â20) â5âThe Darkening of the Sun and Moon (Mk. 13:24â26)
Bibliography Index
1 Reading under Ethics â1âWriting as an Intentional Act â2âReading as an Intentional Act â3âThe Authorâs Voice and the Readerâs Ethics â4âAssumptions, Implications, and Method
2 Communication: Ordinary and Literary â1âOrdinary Communication â2âNarrative Communication: Authors â3âLiterary Communication: Readers â4âLiterary Communication: Authors and Readers â5âDisjunctions: When Communication Fails â6âSummary
3 Locating the Text â1âAn Overview â2âA Two-Self Reading System â3âLocating the Text â4âIdentifying the Intended Audience â5âCharacterizing Otherness â6âSummary
4 Entering the Storyworld â1âWhat is Narrative? â2âAn Introduction to Identification â3âIdentification and Character Construction â4âIdentification and Attachment â5âIdentification and Investment â6âIdentification and Commitment â7âSummary
5 Many Characters, Many Perspectives â1âStrategies for Identification â2âEngaging Other Characters â3âInterest Bias and Evaluative Standard â4âSummary
6 Experiencing the Event â1âMental Simulations and Serious Meaning â2âThe Reading-Self and Modal Realism â3âThe Actual-Self and Moderate Realism â4âThe Experience of Event: Letters to Words â5âThe Experience of Event: Words to Sentences â6âThe Experience of Event: Beyond Sentences â7âSummary
7 Translating Story-Meaning â1âCommunicating Meaning â2âTranslating Meaning: Loyalty â3âTranslating Meaning: Equivalence and Similarity â4âTranslating Meaning: Relevance â5âEvaluating Validity: the Effects of Moderate Realism â6âSummary
8 Markan Examples â1âThe Call of Levi (Mk. 2:14) â2âStorm at Sea (Mk. 4:35â41) â3âThe Woman with a Hemorrhage (Mk. 5:25â34) â4âThe Parable of the Sower (Mk. 4:3â20) â5âThe Darkening of the Sun and Moon (Mk. 13:24â26)
Bibliography Index
All scholars and graduate students who study narrative, with special interests in hermeneutics, interpretation, cognitive narratology, post-classical narratology, ethical criticism, and cross-cultural communication.