How to determine the meaning of a sacred text: cases and methodologies

Exegesis/Eisegesis : is there a difference? -- Aristotle's Inanna : a peripatetic view of myth -- Mythic transformation -- Scripture as Kung An -- Adam, enlightened or fallen? -- The wisdom of the serpent -- Symphony #1 : the genesis -- The structure of Judges 2:6-16:31 -- The Sheng Ren and the...

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Main Author: Williams, Jay G. 1932- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lewiston, NY [u.a.] Mellen Press c2011
In:Year: 2011
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Holy books / Hermeneutics
Further subjects:B Sacred Books History and criticism
B Hermeneutics
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Summary:Exegesis/Eisegesis : is there a difference? -- Aristotle's Inanna : a peripatetic view of myth -- Mythic transformation -- Scripture as Kung An -- Adam, enlightened or fallen? -- The wisdom of the serpent -- Symphony #1 : the genesis -- The structure of Judges 2:6-16:31 -- The Sheng Ren and the Navi -- Return to the roots : Platonic philosophy and the Yi Jing -- On reading a Confucian classic : the rhetoric of the Lun Yu -- Epimenides, self-referentiality and the Lotus Sutra -- The Vimalakirtinirdesasutra : the comedy of paradox -- Absolute skepticism : Lao Zi and Krishnamurti -- Jesus, the lord of Pisces : Hipparcus and the Gospels -- What is wrong with the church? -- Mark, the gospel of radical transformation -- The Gospel according to John (or is it Ch'an?) -- The spiritual in poetry -- Poems as interpretation -- Spiritual imagination
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0773415688