Taking Hermeneutics to Heart: Proposing an Orthopathic Reading for Texts of Terror via the Rape of Tamar Narrative
When we read “texts of terror,” how do we expect them as Scripture to speak to our lives today? Instead of asking what we might learn to believe or do, the orthopathic hermeneutic suggests we might ask, “How should this make us feel?” This article uses the story of the rape of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13 b...
| Auteur principal: | |
|---|---|
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | En cours de chargement...
|
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publié: |
2017
|
| Dans: |
Pneuma
Année: 2017, Volume: 39, Numéro: 3, Pages: 264-274 |
| RelBib Classification: | HB Ancien Testament KDG Église libre NBG Pneumatologie VB Herméneutique; philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Hermeneutics
Tamar
orthopathy
rape
texts of terror
2 Samuel 13
pentecostal hermeneutics
|
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | When we read “texts of terror,” how do we expect them as Scripture to speak to our lives today? Instead of asking what we might learn to believe or do, the orthopathic hermeneutic suggests we might ask, “How should this make us feel?” This article uses the story of the rape of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13 by examining what the text might do to us, not what we should do with the text. Following recent works of pentecostal scholarship, the article suggests that the goal of the reader should not be to search the passage for comfort, but rather to allow the Spirit to speak to us because of the troubling text, not in spite of it. When we do so, we learn to grieve with the Spirit and are inspired to live as instruments of the compassion of Jesus. |
|---|---|
| Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1570-0747 |
| Contient: | In: Pneuma
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700747-03903015 |