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Title: The Rise of the Historical Consciousness


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The Rise of the Historical Consciousness
  • The Enlightenment Challenge to Biblical
    Interpretation

2
Historical Consciousness
  • The awareness that all human phenomena are
    particular, defined in themselves by the
    particular time, place and circumstances by which
    they are constituted and circumscribed. Ernst
    Troeltsch

3
Consequences for Understanding Texts
  • Content of text shaped by ancient context
  • Cultural
  • Economic
  • Political
  • Social
  • Influence of authors pre-suppositions
  • Patterns of speech
  • Ways of thinking
  • Meaning shaped by contemporary readers context
  • Cultural
  • Economic
  • Political
  • Social
  • Influence of readers pre-suppositions
  • Patterns of speech
  • Ways of thinking

Authors consciousness ? Readers consciousness
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The Nature ofHistorical Research
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Historical Research Depends upon Testimony
  • Testimony
  • Interpreted witness (even material artifacts)
  • Requires further interpretation
  • Historians interpret testimony
  • Presuppositions influence interpretation
  • Nature and extent of testimony (texts,
    inscriptions, material artifacts, etc.)
    influences interpretation

6
Objective ofHistorical Research
  • Objective is most probable (not certain)
    reconstruction of the past
  • I.e., an hypothesis
  • Usually a broad outline with some illustrative
    details

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Reading Historical Research
  • Readers of reconstruction add yet another
    interpretive layer
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