Between Text and Community

The ''Writings'' in Canonical Interpretation

By: Donn F. Morgan (Translator)

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"Donn F. Morgan's book represents the best sustained effort to focus on the Writings of the Hebrew Bible as part of the Jewish canon. His thesis that the Writings reflect dialogues between various and disparate Jewish communities and the texts of the Torah and the Prophets deserves serious attention and debate. He rightly focuses on the needs of those communities and the hermeneutics by which they read Torah and Prophets in order to address those needs.

Morgan's book is also the best attempt I have so far seen to compare, contrast, and combine the two quite different approaches to study of canon associated with Brevard Childs and myself. I am impressed with some of the evaluations he makes of what we and our students have both been trying, in remarkably different ways, to do with the concept of canon."
- James A. Sanders, Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology

"This small monograph serves as a stimulating introduction to the Writings, but more importantly it is a reminder that these texts give us a clue to better understanding the particularity of being a Christian or Jew in a richly pluralistic world."
- Kent Harold Richards, Interpretation

"Morgan has produced an intriguing, thoroughly modern paradigm for working with Scripture."
- Christopher R. Seitz, Professor of Old Testament and Theological Studies, St. Andrews University

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"Donn F. Morgan's book represents the best sustained effort to focus on the Writings of the Hebrew Bible as part of the Jewish canon. His thesis that the Writings reflect dialogues between various and disparate Jewish communities and the texts of the Torah and the Prophets deserves serious attention and debate. He rightly focuses on the needs of those communities and the hermeneutics by which they read Torah and Prophets in order to address those needs. Morgan's book is also the best attempt I have so far seen to compare, contrast, and combine the two quite different approaches to study of canon associated with Brevard Childs and myself. I am impressed with some of the evaluations he makes of what we and our students have both been trying, in remarkably different ways, to do with the concept of canon."

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Preface	p. ix
A Canonical View of the Writings	p. 1
Purpose and Context	p. 1
The Writings and Canonical Interpretation	p. 5
Structure and Format	p. 8
Canon and Interpretation	p. 11
Canonical Criticism	p. 11
Canon and Authority	p. 13
Community and Text in Dialogue	p. 15
Community	p. 16
Text	p. 17
Scripture and Torah	p. 18
Methodological Principles and Guidelines	p. 22
Interpretation of Community	p. 23
Literary Context, Paradigm, Structure	p. 24
Theological Principles	p. 26
Toward a Canonical Hermeneutic for the Writings	p. 27
Conclusions	p. 28
Community Shapes the Text	p. 30
Scripture and the Writings in the Post-Exilic Period	p. 30
Scripture	p. 31
Historical Overview	p. 32
Torah and Prophets: Development	p. 34
Tension between Torah and Prophets	p. 37
The Writings	p. 39
Sages and Wisdom	p. 40
Singers and Psalms	p. 42
Community Builders and Torah-History	p. 44
Visionaries and Apocalyptic	p. 47
Storytellers and Diaspora Living	p. 49
Paradigms for the Future	p. 52
Community and Text	p. 53
Toward Canon	p. 55
The Text Shapes Community	p. 57
Scriptural Dialogue in the Writings	p. 57
Sapiential Literature	p. 59
Liturgical Literature	p. 61
Historical Literature	p. 64
Apocalyptic Literature	p. 66
Edifying Literature	p. 68
Conclusions	p. 71
Continuity of the Scriptural Pattern	p. 76
Intertestamental Literature, the New Testament, and Rabbinic Literature	p. 76
Intertestamental Literature	p. 81
The New Testament Writings	p. 91
Rabbinic Literature	p. 96
Canon Revisited	p. 103
The Writings as Canon	p. 108
Canon and Pluralism	p. 111
Canon and Text	p. 113
Canon and Community	p. 117
The Twofold Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity	p. 119
The Writings and Canon	p. 124
Canon as Prolegomenon for Theology	p. 130
Biblical or Canonical Theology	p. 131
The Jewish-Christian Connection	p. 133
Which Canon?	p. 135
Canonical Hermeneutics Revisited	p. 137
Problems and Task	p. 139
Structure	p. 140
Implications for Current Issues	p. 143
Interrelationship with Other Methods	p. 145
Toward the Future	p. 146
Notes	p. 149
Ancient Sources	p. 157
Authors	p. 161
Subjects	p. 163
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