NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION, INTERPRETIVE INTERESTS, AND IDEOLOGY: METHODOLOGICAL DEFICITS AMIDST SOUTH AFRICAN METHODOLOMANIA?

  • Jeremy Punt University of Fort Hare
Keywords: Methodolomania, New Testament, Ethics of interpretation, Responsibility and accountability

Abstract

Criticism of the methodolomania characterising South African New Testament scholarship is expressed by attending to the wider yet neglected setting of preoccupation with methodology: the need for a ethics of interpretation which adresses responsibility and accountability; the (overwhelming) irrelevance of bibical scholrship to the South African community on both ecclesial and socio-political concerns; and, issues regarding (institutional and socio-political) power and control related to methodologies in biblical interpretation.

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Author Biography

Jeremy Punt, University of Fort Hare
University of Fort Hare
Published
2019-05-15
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