Crossing boundaries : the transformative potential of intercultural Bible reading in secular/post-secular contexts
Date
2021-11
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Department of Old and New Testament, Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Intercultural biblical hermeneutics is a fairly recent development in biblical
scholarship in general. It emphasises that biblical interpretation almost always
takes place in contexts where an array of cultural values and beliefs determine
the outcome of the interpretative process. Although this branch of biblical
hermeneutics emerged from the need to reflect theoretically on how Christians
from different socio-cultural and socio-economic contexts engage the biblical
texts, and one another on account of those texts, this approach may also be
widened to include the interpretation of the Bible in non-Christian contexts
(including the contexts of other religions and secular contexts) or even to engage
in discourse on the interpretation of authoritative texts of different traditions
(such as the Qur’an in Islam, in addition to the Tenakh of Judaism, and the Old
and New Testament of Christianity). In research on intercultural biblical
hermeneutics, it has been noticed that intercultural interpretation holds enormous
transformative potential. My paper will examine how this could be of use in
engagements between religious, secular and post-secular contexts.
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CITATON: Jonker, L. C. 2021. Crossing boundaries : the transformative potential of intercultural Bible reading in secular/post-secular contexts. Scriptura, 120(1):1-13, doi:10.7833/120-1-1982.
The original publication is available at https://scriptura.journals.ac.za
The original publication is available at https://scriptura.journals.ac.za
Keywords
Bible -- Hermeneutics, Bible -- Study and teaching, Religion and culture
Citation
Jonker, L. C. 2021. Crossing boundaries : the transformative potential of intercultural Bible reading in secular/post-secular contexts. Scriptura, 120(1):1-13, doi:10.7833/120-1-1982.