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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Lewiston, NY [u.a.]
Mellen Press
c2011
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Holy books
/ Hermeneutics
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| Further subjects: | B
Sacred Books
History and criticism
B Hermeneutics |
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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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | X, 361 S., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7734-1568-3 0-7734-1568-8 |
