Methodological Issues in Interpreting the Old Testament Passages: Socio-Anthropological, Hybridity and Subaltern Perspectives

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. What is Hermeneutics? Things to be Kept in Mind for Doing Hermeneutics. 3. Risk in Hermeneutics. 4. Bible Centered Approach. 5. The Patristic Period. 6. Middle Ages (AD 600-1500). 7. Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment. 8. Historical Hermeneutics of the Old Testament During the 17th and 18th Centuries. 9. The Nineteenth Century Developments in Hermeneutics. 10. Hermeneutics of Neo-Orthodox Theologians. 11. Philosophical Hermeneutics. 12. New Hermeneutics. 13. Roman Catholic Hermeneutics. 14. The Political/Subaltern/Contextual Hermeneutics. 15. The Asian Hermeneutics. 16. Dhvani - An Indian Hermeneutics. 17. Relational Hermeneutics. 18. The Ecumenical Hermeneutics. 19. Indigenous Hermeneutics. 20. Vernacular Hermeneutics. 21. The Current Concepts and Understanding in New Literary Critical Methodologies or Text Oriented Hermeneutics. 22. The Socio-Scientific Approaches. 23. Pedagogical Reading of the Biblical Text of Balaam and Balak form Socio Anthropological, Hybridity and Subaltern Perspective (Numbers 22-24) and Seeing a Relevant Theology of the Exilic and Post-Exilic Times. Conclusion. Bibliography.

This book is an attempt to provide the theological scholars a bird's eye view on various methodologies. These methodologies would be beneficial to make the readers aware of the author, text and context based perspectives in a very succinct manner. This also deals with the various streams of thoughts concentrating on the Philosophical, Roman Catholic and Ecumenical strands; Asian, Indian, Vernacular and other strands. This book will help the readers to see, how these perspectives will be helpful in reading the biblical text, especially the Old Testament texts.