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Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13 - Appropriating the Apocalyptic (Hardcover)
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Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13 - Appropriating the Apocalyptic (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
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The apocalyptic discourse of Mark 13 predicts that cataclysmic
events will occur within the generation of Jesus' contemporaries,
but readers today know these events have not taken place. Paul
Ricoeur's hermeneutics enables a reader to understand this text as
a presentation of truth rather than as a failed prediction. Ricoeur
argues that the meaning of a text is not defined by the author's
intention nor by the reader's reception, but by the text itself.
Therefore, although Mark 13 was originally understood literally,
today's reader is able to read it as metaphor, and to discern
latent meaning that is present in the text. As Ricoeur explains,
metaphor associates previously unrelated concepts and creates new,
multiple meanings. In doing, metaphor is able to present truth, not
as a verifiable presentation of the world, but as a novel
manifestation of the world. Mark 13 functions as metaphor because
of a double dissonance: first between the configured world of the
text and the lived world of the reader, and second between claim
that Jesus is able to predict when the events will take place (v.
30) and the assertion that he is not able to do so (v. 32). One
option for the metaphorical meaning that Mark 13 offers for today's
reader is the perception of the presence of forces that challenge
and subvert powers which appear to be dominant, and which deceive,
destroy, and persecute. This book will appeal to two sets of
readers. First, scholars who study New Testament apocalyptic texts
and the eschatological expectations of the early church will
appreciate a new approach to a challenging subject matter. Second,
Ricoeur scholars who focus upon the religious aspects of his work
will enjoy the employment of his interpretive approach on a
Biblical genre that has heretofore receive only cursory attention.
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