By Wolfgang Iser
1. Introduction
The market of Interpretation Interpretation as Translatability
2. The Authority of the Canon
Canonization and Midrash
The Literary Canon: Dr. Johnson on Shakespeare
3. The Hermeneutic Circle
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher:
Self-Reflective Circularity
Johann Gustav Droysen: The Nesting of Circles Paul Ricœur: Transactional Loops
4. The Recursive Loop
Recursion in Ethnographic Discourse Systemic Recursion
5. The touring Differential: Franz Rosenzweig, The megastar of Redemption
“The beginning of the weather Out of the Somber
Foundations of Nought” Proliferating Translatability
6. Configurations of Interpretation: An Epilogue
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Second, these gaps are doubled up by the empty spaces that separate the narrative, the nimshal, and the prooftext, as these textual patterns have different functions in relation to what has preceded them and what they are designed to interpret. The empty spaces, however, are structured insofar as the nimshal determines the application, and the prooftext is the authoritative corroboration of the latter. Thus the spaces serve as openings for the audience, which has to grasp the ulterior meaning that the mashal bears.
24 the authority of the canon First, the prime concern of the mashal is to engage its potential audience. David Stern writes that the mashal “deliberately gives the impression of naming its meaning insufficiently. It uses ambiguity intentionally. Yet the mashal achieves this appearance—the appearance of ambiguity—not by being authentically ambiguous but by shrewdly incorporating openings for the questioning of meaning; in this way it artfully manipulates its audience to fill those openings so as to arrive at the mashal’s correct conclusion” (15).
8 The Book of Ecclesiastes is a case in point. In Ecclesiastes, history is portrayed as a series of events completely devoid of meaning. The sons repeat the wicked deeds of their fathers, and such repetition proves that there is nothing new under the sun. “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit” (Eccles. 1:14). “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun” (Eccles.