BIBLICAL STUDIES IN A POSTMODERN AGE

聖經研究與後現代

戴維斯(Philip R. Davies)

《建道學刊》 7期 (1997/01) Pp. 37-55

摘要

This essay attempts to understand how biblical studies is affected by the age of postmodernism. It considered five topics which become problematic in a postmodern setting: Language, Text, History, God and Bible. Though these five areas become problematic to biblical scholars in the postmodern age, it is not impossible or irrelevant. The discipline will not remain in a time-capsule insulated from developments in other humanities. The author argues that, we live in a world not of fact and object but of persuasion, of marketing, of blurring of reality and unreality. Indeed, in a postmodern academy, the need to justify your own truth and argue against other truths is more important than ever, since no longer can any particular truth expect to be given privileged status.

並列摘要

本文試圖了解後現代主義對聖經研究的影響，並探討語言、文本、歷史、上帝、聖經等在後現代處境中引發的問題。儘管上述五個範疇為後現代時期的聖經學者製造不少問題，但卻是有可能及息息相關的。這門學科不會與其他人文科學的發展隔絕。筆者認為我們身處的世界並不注重事實和實質，而是充斥著論說、推銷及真假難辨的事。事實上，後現代的學者比以往更需要為自己的理論辯護和駁倒別人的理據，因為沒有任何人的論點可以擁有特權。