Web Sites

Biblical Hermeneutics (New)
By Holger Szesnat: very useful, massive bibliographical style listing of internet texts on the topic of Biblical Hermeneutics.

Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation
A fine web site mainly based on the theories of Vernon Robbins: includes a Dictionary of Socio-Rhetorical Terms, a Bibliography and lots of examples of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation in action.

Ars-Rhetorica: The Centre for Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
Sponsored by the Centre for Rhetorics and Hermeneutics and the New Testament Rhetoric Project, this web site gives details of the centre, its editorial board, upcoming conferences and two journals, Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power and Journal for the Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament (see next link).

Journal for the Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament (New URL)
Founding editor: James D. Hester: an on-line journal focusing on rhetorical critical methods and the New Testament. At present the journal features conference papers, bibliographies and book reviews.

Semiotics and Exegesis (New URL)
Home of the Semiotics and Exegesis section of the Society of Biblical Literature featuring programme details, papers and links to on-line resources.

Books and Articles

Rudolf Bultmann & Five Critics, Kerygma and Myth
Full version from Religion On-Line of the English edition of a famous book featuring Bultmann's essay "New Testament and Mythology", answers by five critics (Julius Schniewind, Ernst Lohmeyer, Helmut Thielicke, Friedrich K. Schumann & Austin Farrer) and Bultmann's responses.

J. D. H. Amador, “Where Could Rhetorical Criticism (Still) Take Us?”, article in Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 7 (October 1999); reproduced on Amador's Home Page.

J. D. H. Amador, “Socio-Rhetorical Criticism and the Parable of the Tenants”, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 45 (1992), pp. 27-57; reproduced on Amador's Home Page.

J. D. H. Amador, “Interpretive Unicity: The Drive Toward Monological (Monotheistic) Rhetoric”, The Rhetorical Interpretation of Scripture: Essays from the 1996 Malibu Conference (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), reproduced on Amador's Home Page.

J. D. H. Amador, “The Word Made Flesh: Epistemology, Ontology & Postmodern Rhetorics”, The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture: Essays from the 1995 London Conference (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), reproduced on Amador's Home Page.

J. D. H. Amador, “Rediscovering and Re-inventing Rhetoric”, Scriptura 50 (1994), pp. 1-40, reproduced on Amador's Home Page.

David B. Gowler,“Heteroglossic Trends in Biblical Studies: Polyphonic Dialogues or Clanging Cymbals?”, Review and Expositor 97/4 (2000), pp. 443-466, reproduced on Gowler's Homepage.

David B. Gowler, “The Development of Socio-Rhetorical Criticism”, Introduction to New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark (Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 3; New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Paris: Peter Lang, 1994), pp. 1-35, reproduced on Gowler's Homepage.

Nancy R. Heisey,“The influence of African scholars on Biblical Studies: an evaluation”, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 101 (July 1998), pp. 35-48 (New URL)

Johannes C de Klerk, “Situating biblical narrative studies in literary theory and literary approaches”, Religion and Theology 4/3 (1997), pp. 186-203

Steve Moyise, “Concluding Hermeneutical Observations”, Chapter 10 in Steve Moyise, The Old Testament in the New (London and New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. 128-38

Steve Moyise, “Intertextuality and the Study of the Old Testament in the New”, in S. Moyise (ed), The Old Testament in the New. Essays in Honour of J.L.North (JSNTSup, 189; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), pp. 14-41

Steve Moyise, “Seeing the Old Testament Through a Lens”, IBS 23 (2001), pp. 36-41

Steve Moyise, “The Use of Analogy in Biblical Studies”, ANVIL 18/1 (2001), pp. 33-42

Steve Moyise, “The Old Testament in the New: A Reply to Greg Beale”, Irish Biblical Studies 21 (May 1999), pp. 54-58

McGlory T. Speckman, “Beyond the debate: an agenda for Biblical Studies in the new South Africa”, Religion and Theology 3/2 (1996), pp. 135--151

Gerald O. West, “On the eve of an African biblical studies: Trajectories and trends”, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 99 (November 1997), pp. 99-115 (New URL)

Gosnell L. Yorke, “Biblical hermeneutics: an Afrocentric perspective”, Religion and Theology 2/2 (1995), pp. 145-158