Talking Points: January 2025

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OralityTalks Webinar

Topic: Holistic Hermeneutics: Interpreting Scripture in Light of Oral Tradition

Presenter/Facilitator: Josh Frost – SIL and Dallas International University

Immediate Contributors:7 Specialists (hermeneutics instructors, Bible Translators, and pastor trainers)

Josh takes us into the heart of Biblical interpretation.

The text of scripture cannot capture the complete mind of God nor whisper the depths of his heart. Nor can we faithfully pass on the message “exegeted” from the text without feeling the joy, sorrow, disappointment, and hope embodied by the inspired authors. Paul was livid with the Galatian abandonment of grace. His bond of love, friendship, and memories with the Philippians inspired him to sing during a letter. But the Psalms speak even more. Josh has given years to unlocking the interpretive power of connecting with the psalmists – their ecstatic ovations of praise, the laments of total despair, depression, fear, and trust during life’s worst nightmares.

January 8, 2025, at 8:00 PM (Manila) / 7:00 AM (USA Eastern)

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Holistic Hermeneutics

Biblical hermeneutics, contrary to Bernard Ram, can never be reduced to the science of interpreting the Scriptures through systematically consistent rules and principles. Jesus regularly confronted scribes, Levites, Sadducees, Pharisees, and the prevailing Jewish leaders. Their myopic view of the Word of God deafened them to the Shema Israel (Deu. 6). Of the more than a dozen schools of interpretation, some lean heavily on the text while others listen for the Voices – God’s voice and those of his prophets and inspired teachers.

Publications:

Kahl, W. (2024). Postcolonial biblical hermeneutics and exegesis. Postcolonial Biblical Hermeneutics and Eexegesis.

PDF: https://tagungshaushamburg.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/26_sitma_WEB._v2.pdf#page=103

An Asian Perspective

Sun, C. (2019). Recent Research on Asian and Asian American Hermeneutics Related to the Hebrew Bible. Currents in Biblical Research, 17(3), 238-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476993X19832139

Kalluveettil, P. (2007). AN ASIAN BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS: PERSPECTIVES AND PROSPECTS. Asian Horizons, 1(01), 8–36. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2308

African Perspective

ADAMO, David Tuesday. The task and distinctiveness of African biblical hermeneutic(s). Old testam. essays [online]. 2015, vol.28, n.1 [cited 2024-12-23], pp.31-52. Available from: http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1010-99192015000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso. ISSN 2312-3621. https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2015/v28n1a4.

RUKUNDWA, Lazare S. Postcolonial theory as a hermeneutical tool for Biblical reading. Herv. teol. stud., Pretoria , v. 64, n. 1, p. 339-351, Mar. 2008 . Available from http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222008000100019&lng=en&nrm=iso. Accessed on 23 Dec. 2024.

From an Indian Perspective: Fuller Studio

George Soares-Prabhu: https://www.theway.org.uk/back/s072SoaresPrabhu.pdf