Metacriticism: On Methodological Problems of Biblical Exegesis (EABS)

Call For Papers: “Economical Criteria” in Redaction Criticism: The 2017 workshop applies Umberto Eco’s concept of “economical criteria” to redaction criticism, thus seeking to foster reflection on methodological problems in this approach. “Economical criteria” as suggested by Eco help evaluating competing textual interpretations of varying complexity. In application to redaction criticism, the concept affords the possibility to compare and evaluate competing results of redaction-critical analysis. The following general problems call for critical attention: - Certain presuppositions of redaction-critical analysis tend to remain implicit and/or unconscious although they predetermine the results in a considerable manner. Having been brought to explicit attention, these presuppositions and the results arrived at by employing them can and should be compared. The evaluation likely will indicate that some analyses and respective models of the redaction history of a given text are more economical than others. - There are cases in which textual development is perceptible due to a plurality of indicators of different type. Such diverse indicators can either support or neutralise each other. In the current methodological discussion, this problem tends to pass unheeded. - In this context it shall be evaluated in which cases synchronic interpretations of tensions in form, content and pragmatics of biblical texts result in overall simpler models of textual interpretation or rather in more difficult ones. (Please note that this is a shortened version of the 2017 Call for Papers. For the complete text, see https://eabs.net/site/metacriticism-on-methodological-problems-of-biblical-exegesis-workshop/.)

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