What Does This Mean?

by Voelz, James W.

• ISBN13: 9780570049838
• ISBN10: 0570049830
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Concordia Pub House

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(10)
Part 1: Textual Criticism	23	(62)
A. General Introduction	23	(12)
Chapter 1	23	(12)
1. The Need for and Nature of Textual Criticism
2. Types of Differences in the Copies of the Texts of the OT and NT
3. Classification of Textual Differences
4. Explaining the Textual Differences (How Did Differences Arise and Why?)
5. The Task of Textual Criticism
B. New Testament	35	(26)
Chapter 2	35	(26)
1. The Evidence for the Text of the NT
2. Nature of the Greek Evidence for the NT Text
3. Analysis of the Evidence
4. Establishing the Correct Text
Addendum 2-A: Alternative Understandings of the Evidence for and the Development of the NT Text	53	(8)
C. Old Testament	61	(13)
Chapter 3	61	(13)
1. Introduction
2. Towards a Solution
3. Doing OT Textual Criticism
D. Summary Conclusion to Part 1	74	(11)
Addendum 3-A: Targum and Masoretic Text Readings: Genesis 4:6-9	75	(4)
Addendum 3-B: "What Is the `Original' Text?"	79	(2)
Addendum 3-C: The Value of Textual Criticism	81	(4)
Part 2: Linguistics	85	(262)
A. Semantics	85	(190)
Chapter 4	85	(34)
1. Introduction
2. Basic Principles
Addendum 4-A: Traditional Linguistic Analysis and Modern Linguistic Response	105	(10)
Addendum 4-B: Language and Thought: The Source of Conceptual Signifieds and the Role of Language	115	(4)
Chapter 5	119	(36)
3. Elaborations
Addendum 5-A: Hebrew Poetic Structure	139	(11)
Addendum 5-B: The Canon in Hermeneutical Perspective--Part 1	150	(5)
Chapter 6	155	(13)
4. Extension: Semantic Dimensions of a Text: Meaning Derives from Several Levels of Signifiers
Chapter 7	168	(15)
5. Complexities on Level 1
a. Language Usage May Be Literal or Nonliteral
Addendum 7-A: Language about God "God Talk"	176	(7)
Chapter 8	183	(14)
5. Complexities on Level 1 (Continued)
b. Meaning Derives from Hidden Sources
Chapter 9	197	(10)
6. Complexities on Level 2
Chapter 10	207	(10)
7. Further Critical Issues
a. The Role of the Reader in the Interpretation of a Text: Meaning Is Interpersonal
b. Intentionality
Chapter 11	217	(58)
7. Further Critical Issues (Continued)
c. Valid Interpreters Interpretations
Addendum 11-A: The Divine Nature and Attributes of Sacred Scripture	230	(14)
Addendum 11-B: The Christocentricity of the Scriptures: The Kingdom of God and Biblical Eschatology as Key	244	(19)
Addendum 11-C: The Canon in Hermeneutical Perspective--Part 2	263	(4)
Addendum 11-D: Prophecy and Fulfillment	267	(8)
B. Pragmatics	275	(47)
Chapter 12	275	(47)
1. Introduction
2. Basics
3. Analysis
4. Evaluation
Addendum 12-A: Performative Speech Acts	289	(4)
Addendum 12-B: Genre in Semantic and Pragmatic Perspective	293	(8)
Addendum 12-C: Parables	301	(15)
Addendum 12-D: The Reading Experience and Reading as Experience	316	(6)
C. Application	322	(25)
Chapter 13	322	(25)
1. Introduction
2. Principles of Application, Part 1--General NT
3. Principles of Application, Part 2--OT
4. Conclusions and Concluding Observations
Addendum 13-A: The Process of Interpretation: Another Model	342	(5)
Part 3: The Lutheran Confessional Approach	347	(15)
Chapter 14	347	(15)
1. Introduction
2. The Nature and Function of Confessional Statements
3. The Confessions as Biblical Expositions
4. The Confessions as Hermeneutical Guides Themselves
5. Conclusion
Glossary	362