GENRE

OT Hermeneutics

gen·re

/ˈZHänrə/

n. a coherent and recurring configuration of literary features involving form (including structure and style), content and function.

What is “Literal” Interpretation?

Dubrow

Genre

Murder at Marplethorpe

The Personal History of David Marplethorpe

Before Genre

How we got here

Hermann Gunkel

(1862–1932)

The father of Form Criticism

James Muilenburg

(1896–1974)

The father of Rhetorical Criticism

Presidential Address

at SBL in 1968

Is “Wisdom Literature”

a Genre?

What do they have in common?

What do they have in common?

Beethoven

Mozart

Tchaikovsky

What about...

Genre is subverted and

recreated with every new text.

“Generic Nominalism”

Do Genres Exist?

The Genres of Scripture

Promises & Pitfalls

Promises

-  Scientific Problems  -

-  Ethical Problems  -

-  “Contradictions”  -

Pitfalls

-  Anachronism  -

-  Arbitrariness  -

-  Circularity  -

Song of Songs, Jonah, and Job

What genre is it?

What difference does

that make?

The End

Genre | OT Hermeneutics

By James Cuénod

Genre | OT Hermeneutics

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