Biblical Exegesis: A Beginner’s Handbook, 4th ed.
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This is a beginner’s guide to biblical exegesis, providing exegetical methods, practices, and theories. This book provides simple, helpful information and guidance about doing exegesis, without being overly prescriptive; succinctly introduces students to various methods; provides basic bibliographies that take students beyond an introductory discussion; and emphasizes exegesis as an everyday activity based on commonsense principles rather than as an esoteric enterprise.
This revised edition of this perennially best-selling textbook includes discussions of emerging methods of interpretation aimed at a contemporary audience. Several chapters have been updated and improved, and readers will find an incisive new chapter on exegesis with a focus on identity and advocacy. Holladay has also written a new concluding chapter on exegesis as the art of seeing. Bibliographies are updated, and a helpful glossary is included in this new edition.
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- Provides exegetical methods, practices, and theories.
- Introduces students to various methods.
- Emphasizes exegesis as an everyday activity based on commonsense principles.
- Introducing Exegesis
- Textual Criticism: The Quest for the Original Wording
- Historical Criticism: The Setting in Time and Place
- Grammatical Criticism: The Language of the Text
- Literary Criticism: Rhetorical and Narrative Dimensions of the Text
- Form Criticism: The Genre and Life Setting of the Text
- Tradition Criticism: The Stages behind the Text
- Redaction Criticism: The Final Viewpoint and Theology
- Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Universals and Differences
- Canonical Criticism: The Sacred Text of Synagogue and Church
- Exegesis: Identity and Advocacy
- Integrating Exegetical Procedures
- Employing the Fruits of Biblical Exegesis
- Exegesis: The Art of Seeing
A book that has now served generations comes to us here afresh in a fully updated version. It is basically a book about listening to the Bible, how to listen in ways that you can hear what biblical writers were saying in their context and their way and not listen selectively or hear only what you want to hear. If you care about the Bible and its meaning, then this is the book for you. To care is to listen. Tools to take the Bible seriously—a wonderful gift.
—William Loader, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
In this fourth edition of the well-known handbook, Biblical Exegesis, Holladay offers a fully revised, freshly updated version of the beloved classic that he and Hayes published decades ago. Both comprehensive and comprehensible, this volume is an invaluable guide to the wonderfully complex world of biblical exegesis. It tops my list of recommended resources for new students and experienced pastors alike.
—Michal Beth Dinkler, Associate Professor of New Testament, Yale Divinity School
Over twenty-five years ago, I purchased the second edition of Biblical Exegesis for my first biblical studies class as a seminarian. My scribbled notes revealed both anxiety about the task in front of me and confidence that this book would help me do the work. This fourth edition, with its up-to-date bibliographies, clear explanations of multiple types of exegesis, revised chapters, and words of encouragement, will give students the same confidence to engage with biblical texts. The book is subtitled A Beginner’s Handbook, but it will help beginners become skilled veterans.
—Stacy Davis, Professor of Religious Studies and Theology, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana