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The article first briefly overviews the most important books of the highly voluminous oeuvre of the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye (1912-1991). They are the monograph on William Blake from 1947, Fearful Symmetry; then his most relevant book, Anatomy of Criticism from 1957, and three books about the Bible and literature: The Great Code (1982), Words with Power (1990) and The Double Vision (1991). They are first used to indicate the basis of Frye's thought (imaginational epistemology based on W. Blake); second, to indicate the central place of the kerygma in Frye's books on the Bible and literature; and third, to state what the kerygma actually is for Frye. Finally, a warning is given to the directiveness and the Gnosticism of Frye's interpretation of the kerygma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With his phenomenological hermeneutics, Paul Ricoeur had an important influence on Biblical exegesis. The article therefore, first, analyses his study, Biblical Hermeneutics (1975), which exemplify the main points of Ricoeur's hermeneutics and its application on Biblical texts. Although it is generally considered that this kind of hermeneutics is an important corrective to so-called structuralist ideology for which the autonomy of a text presupposes a complete termination of the referential dimension of language, the article points out that phenomenological hermeneutics is not sufficient and that it ignores the incarnational logic. Consequently, it suggests that Biblical hermeneutics needs to not only return the written text to discourse but also to point towards the Body, which is not a mere interpretative community, but an event of the »new creation «. By being in the Body, a new hermeneutics of the body is being »born«. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After the initial contextualization of the topic, by following Nancy's juxtaposition strategy, this article points to two senses of the body that, according to him, have defined the Western culture. The first one, logos (principle precedes the body and gives it meaning); the second, sarx (the meaning of the body comes from the body itself, so that the body comes out of itself, alienates itself, and deconstructs its own representative activities). Next, I give a more precise depiction of Nancy's deconstruction of the body through an analysis of Corpus because it is precisely with this work (in the chapter On the Soul, which is also the title of Aristotle's well-known treatise dealing first and foremost with the body, and in the chapter The Extension of the Soul) that Nancy most explicitly deconstructs hylomorphic somatology, which largely influenced the Christian theology of the body. Furthermore, I interpret Genesis 2:18–25 (in constant dialogue with Nancy) as a theological reaction on Nancy's deconstruction of the body. In other words, on the basis of biblical texts, the "mystery of the body" is depicted. Finally, the article ends with a comparison of Nancy's "inoperative community" (communauté désoeuvrée) and the Body of Christ (church). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the introductory contextualisation, the article first explains Hans Frei's claim that the 18th and the 19th century Biblical hermeneutics led to the»eclipse«of literal reading of the Biblical narrative, due to its apologetic-interpretative efforts (interpre-tation of the Bible by interpretative theories based on the rationalistic canon and historical factualness). After that, tools and concepts (»realistic narrative«,»narrative identity«, consensual interpretation) that Frei used to interpret literal meaning of Biblical narratives are pointed out. Finally, the conclusion presents advantages and disadvantages of Frei's project and the authorship claim, based on the patristic-medieval exegetical tradition and completely ignored by Frei, that the Word of God is not only the text (Bible), linguistic presentation of God, but also the corpus, the physical presence of God. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]