"By carefully observing how the editors dealt with elements which they deemed unrepeatable (einmalig) but which they reckoned to be representative or universal in application, a basic hermeneutical direction is provided by which to broaden theological reflection beyond the Old Testament." (1992: 326) ... Is the redaction history of the text an example of typology in process?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
"If exegesis is to be nothing more than giving an account of the meaning of a writer–of what he himself meant by what he said–then no doubt the conventional explanation of the story of Jesus’ temptation as an objective appearance and activity of Satan is the only true one, for in their account Matthew and Luke appear to have nothing more in mind."
Monday, April 21, 2008
Brevard Childs has often been accused of “flattening the text,” i.e seeking literary unity where there is none for the sake of sticking with the text’s final form. However, it is clear as one reads his 1974 Exodus commentary that nothing could be farther than the truth... In what, then, does the "integrity" of the final form consist, if not in its literary structure, and why is this so important to Childs?
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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