The aims and scope of hermeneutics
Hermeneutics in the context of philosophy, biblical studies, literary theory, and the social self
An example of hermeneutical methods : the parables of Jesus
A legacy of perennial questions from the ancient world : Judaism and the ancient Greeks
The New Testament and the second century
From the third to the thirteenth centuries
Reform, the Enlightenment, and the rise of biblical criticism
Schleiermacher and Dilthey
Rudolf Bultmann and demythologizing the New Testament
Some mid-twentieth-century approaches : Barth, the new hermeneutic, structuralism, post-structuralism, and Barr's semantics
Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics : the second turning point
The hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur
The hermeneutics of liberation theologies and postcolonial hermeneutics
Feminist and womanist hermeneutics
Reader-response amd reception theory
Postmodernism and hermeneutics
Some concluding comments.
