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<\/a><\/p>\nQ. One thing I really always appreciate about your work, besides the obvious depth of attention to the theological pith of various texts, is your modeling attending to the whole hermeneutical arc from original context to later use of a text or an idea in the NT to contemporary discussions of relevance. Honestly, there aren\u2019t that many scholars out there who do this, and I\u2019m wondering why, even when many of them are practicing Jews or Christians? Why is this? Is it just lack of courage (or fear they will be viewed as \u2018uncritical\u2019 scholars by the academy), or concern with the application of the Biblical texts to contemporary contexts?<\/p>\n
A. It\u2019s hard to say, as habits have developed over time, and the influence of the \u201chistory vs dogma\u201d debates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in terms of anxieties about \u201coriginal meaning\u201d over against \u201canachronistic theological interpretations\u201d of the text, still lingers (and, sadly, is still periodically refreshed by bad practice in some contexts). I guess that part of what I\u2019m doing is trying to offer models of how a more integrated theological approach to the text can remain philologically and historically responsible \u2013 for it\u2019s when people can see how it works in practice that they can catch a vision for what they might do themselves.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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