Descriptive varieties of philosophical commentary
Abstract
In this article, the author argues that philosophical criticism as a
form of biblical criticism can supplement literary-historical interpretation.
Descriptive philosophical analysis has as its primary aim the
clarification of meaning, namely understanding – not the justification
or critique – of truth-claims. Three forms of functional philosophical
commentary are discussed: presupposition reconstruction, conceptual
analysis and philosophical translation. The objective is to demonstrate
how these varieties of philosophical exegesis aimed at understanding
rather than at adjudication are able to reveal dimensions in
the text otherwise inaccessible to non-philosophical approaches to the
Hebrew Bible
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