The Text as Thou: Martin Buber's Dialogical Hermeneutics and Narrative Theology

by Steven Kepnes

The Text as Thou establishes Martin Buber's central concept of "I-Thou" as the heart of a dialogical theory of textual interpretation and a narrative method for explicating Jewish philosophy and theology. Part One takes up Buber's application of his hermeneutic method to the texts of Hasidism and the Bible and the way in which that method can be applied to secular texts as well. His development of a dialogical hermeneutics links Buber to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253331277
• ISBN13: 9780253331274
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher