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120 CONFLICTING THEOLOGIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT1 ERHARD S. GERSTENBERGER gersterh@mailer.uni-marburg.de Fasanenweg 29, D-35394 Giessen, Germany There always has been-and presumably there always will be-a certain necessity, on the part of exegetes and interpreters of the Scriptures, to come up with coherent, plausible answers to theological and ethical questions. The questions are contemporary with the interpreter, and the answers have to satisfy them. That means the Scriptures have to be consistent and reliable for the exegete and his or her audience and situation. They must not be ambiguous, because the reader, crediting them with the highest authority, expects clear guidance in matters of faith and practice. At this crucial point the whole Bible, ideally, has to be regarded as speaking with one harmonious voice. Otherwise exegesis, the interrogatory process, could not possibly yield uniform answers to our vexing questions. The exigency to give a clear testimony, then, comes from the interpreter's side, not from the vast and heterogeneous collection of canonical (and deuterocanonical) writings. All along through the history of interpretation (which began very early within the formative processes of biblical literature itself) there has been a tantalizing resistance on the part of traditional witnesses to be fitted
Horizons in Biblical Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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