The reading of sacred narratives: a critique of traditional exegesis from the Semiotics of Culture and Theory Narratives

Abstract

Interdisciplinary generated deep and renewing changes in questions to the texts, which always revolved around authorship, historical background and genealogy of traditions. Observing the history of the establishment of sciences of religion from the early works of Max Müller, it is known that the reading of sacred narratives was fundamental. These are expressions of oral or written language of the religious environment. In this text, the intuitions of semiotics of culture of I. Lotman will be presented and put into dialogue with the narrative theories, to be thought some epistemological and methodological assumptions, less debt of historicist methodologies in order to serve as a tool for interpreting these sacralized texts by religious communities. For this done, will present and discuss concepts such as text, culture, memory and narrative, which will allow to make the necessary criticisms of the traditional methodologies crystallized in interpretative practice, especially in the child exegesis of modernity, as also propose new questions and ways in compression of the religious texts.