THE LITERARY STUDIES OF THE BIBLE AND THE HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH BETWEEN THE NARRATED WORLD AND THE WORLD OF THE LISTENER-READER

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929342311058

• Palavras-chave: Biblical exegesis; narrative analysis; popular reading of the Bible; Bible as literature.

• Keywords: Biblical exegesis; narrative analysis; popular reading of the Bible; Bible as literature.

• Abstract:

  If the popular reading of the Bible is not minimally guided by a hermeneutic method, it risks succumbing to the interpretive expedients of religious fundamentalism. The present text, therefore, proposes to demonstrate that the literary methods of studying the Bible are a promising methodological approach for the approximation between the narrated world and the world of the listener-reader. This enterprise intends to present the narrated world as an environment for the characters’ experience and the narrative discourse as a place for the listener-reader’s experience.