Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Precritical Interpretation of Biblical Narrative 17
6. 3. Change in Interpretation: The Eighteenth Century 51
7. 4. Anthony Collins: Meaning, , Reference, and Prophecy 66
8. 5. Hermeneiitics and Meaning-as-Reference 86
9. 6. Biblical Hermeneutics and Religious Apologetics 105
10. 7. Apologetics, Criticism, and the Loss of Narrative Interpretation 124
11. 8. Hermeneutics and Biblical Authority in German Thought 155
12. 9. The Quest for A Unitary Meaning 165
13. 10. Herder on thfe Bible: The Realistic §pirit in History 183
14. 11. The Lack of Realism in German Letters 202
15. 12. Strauss’s Perfection of the "Mythical" Option 233
16. 13. Hermeneutical Options at the Turn of the Century 245
17. 14. Myth and Narrative Meaning: A Question of Categories 267
18. 15. The Hermeneutics of Understanding 282
19. 16. "Understanding" and Narrative Continuity 307
20. Notes 325
21. Index 349