Abstract
Hermeneutical premises in historical Jesus research, Part 1:social-scientific presuppositions. The aim of this article is to reflect on social-scientific theoies, models and methods in historical Jesus research. The discussion focuses on ive epistemological aspects. The first aspect is the social conditioning of the epistemological process. All knowledge is socially conditioned and perspectival in nature. The second aspect is the situational discourse of the interpreter and the object of investigation. The third aspect concerns the process of knowing where theories and models are discussed. Distinctions are drawn between paradigms, theories, models and methods. Heuristics is the fourth matter to be discussed. Three approaches are evaluated critically: deduction, induction and abduction. Fifthly, the world of the Bible will be considered as a pre-industrial and advanced agrarian society.
Highlights
The aim of this article is to reflect on social-scientific theories, models and methods in historical Jesus research
The discussion focuses on five epistemological aspects
The first aspect is the social conditioning of the epistemological process
Summary
Die oogmerk met hierdie artikel is om sekere hermeneuties-metodologiese uitgangspunte van die historiese lesus-navorsing krities-reflektief te bespreek. Hoewel dit in die algemene gang van die wetenskapteoretiese besinning oor die afgelope dekades aan die orde gestel is, het ons dit tog in besondere mate aan die historiese lesus-ondersoek te danke dat die besinning oor teoretiese uitgangspunte uitgespel moes word. Henneneutiese uitgangspunte in historiese-Jesus navorsing, Deell besonder enkele sosiaal-wetenskaplike aspekte oor teoriee, modelie en metodes onder die loep
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