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Author Kepnes, Steven, 1952-

Title The text as thou : Martin Buber's dialogical hermeneutics and narrative theology / Steven Kepnes.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.
Summary The Text as Thou establishes Martin Buber's central concept of "I-Thou" as the heart of a dialogical theory of textual interpretation and a narrative method for explicating Jewish philosophy and theology. Part One takes up Buber's application of his hermeneutic method to the texts of Hasidism and the Bible and the way in which that method can be applied to secular texts as well. His development of a dialogical hermeneutics links Buber to such contemporary theorists as Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Bakhtin. Part Two demonstrates that narrative provides privileged access to Buber's thought. By the retelling of Hasidic tales, biblical stories, and autobiographical anecdotes with powerful immediacy and concreteness, Buber succeeds in a daring attempt to formulate a modern narrative Jewish theology. Taken together, Buber's dialogical hermeneutics and narrative theology constitute a key element in the contemporary revival of the Jewish midrashic imagination.
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Subject Buber, Martin, 1878-1965.
Buber, Martin, 1878-1965.
Buber, Martin.
Hermeneutics -- History -- 20th century.
Hermeneutics.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
Narrative theology -- History -- 20th century.
Narrative theology.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kepnes, Steven, 1952- Text as thou. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1992 0253331277 (DLC) 92007725 (OCoLC)25411709
ISBN 0585104778 (electronic book)
9780585104775 (electronic book)
0253331277
9780253331274 (cloth ; alkaline paper)