Catholic Bible Interpretation Methods

Composition history questions

• The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James | Luke Leuk Cheung
• The Stories about Naboth the Jezreelite: A Source, Composition and Redaction Investigation of 1 Kings 21 and Passages in 2 Kings 9 | Patrick T. Cronauer, O.S.B.
• The Composition of the Book of Isaiah in the Light of History and Archaeology | Robert H. Kennett
• The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament | Reinhard G. Krantz and John Boden
• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs | Robert A. Kugler
• The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition, and Interpretation | John H. Sailhamer
• The Composition and Date of Acts | Charles Cutler Torrey
• The Composition of the Book of Proverbs | R. N. Whybray

Traditional literary criticism

Comparison of translations

Textual criticism

Source criticism

Form criticism

Redaction criticism

Socio-historical criticism

Rhetorical analysis

Narrative analysis

Semiotic analysis

Canonical approach

Using Jewish interpretative traditions

History of interpretation

Sociological approach

Cultural anthropology approach

Psychological/psychoanalytical approaches

Liberationist approach

Feminist approach

Structural approach

Reader-response approach