"These Are the Days of Elijah": The Hermeneutical Move from "Applying the Text" to "Living in Its World"
This article offers a critique of—and an alternative to—the commonly held view that one of the goals of the interpreter is to "apply" the Bible to today. First, we will consider an exemplar of this sort of approach (Howard Marshall's Beyond the Bible), an account not atypical of commo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2014
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Journal of theological interpretation
Year: 2014, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-174 |
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| Summary: | This article offers a critique of—and an alternative to—the commonly held view that one of the goals of the interpreter is to "apply" the Bible to today. First, we will consider an exemplar of this sort of approach (Howard Marshall's Beyond the Bible), an account not atypical of common hermeneutical concerns. I then suggest that one key theological notion that does not sufficiently trouble this account is that of canon, in particular the two-testament structure of Christian Scripture. This has immediate implications for the resultant figural structuring of time, which maps OT into NT in ways that are theologically programmatic for how we understand "today" (as long as it is called today). More briefly, I also argue that the canon sets forth a "secondary world" or a realistic account of reality that again requires something other than a notion of moving from "then" to "now" (or from "there" to "here"). In conclusion, I wager that, if one pursues this kind of enriching or intensifying account of the relevance of Scripture to the present day, then the kinds of issues and questions that will end up emphasized and probed will be both theologically important and also of relevance to today's differently shaped issues and questions. |
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| ISSN: | 2576-7933 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of theological interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/26373923 |