By A. Berkeley Mickelsen
An important paintings in hermeneutics that's accomplished with out being complicated. Mickelsen covers all points of the fundamental rules for studying Scripture, contemplating new concerns, crucial tools,and validated concepts.
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Xi-xii, torisch] event of the cross has, in the significance peculiar to created a new historic [gesrhichtlich] situation. 17 it, of to be But the cross for B u l t m a n n i s n o t f o l l o w e d b y a n o t h e r e v e n t , namely the resurrection, a l t h o u g h i t i s s o s t a t e d i n a l l f o u r G o s p e l s . “18 For Bultmann “resurrection” is only interpretation. It is an article of faith but not a separate fact of history. “‘” That the resurrection is first an event, and second, an interpreted event or an article of faith is impossible for Bultmann.
James Smart cites Wright21 and Dodd22 as providing examples of this type of procedure. He points out the error in such a procedure: However, in this emphasis upon event, the fact is lost from sight that in both Testaments the event is always an interpreted event. Event in history and interpretation are inseparable, so that the event without the interpretation would not be a revelation to anyone.. This tendency to equate revelation with the historical events fails to take account of the fact that, everywhere in Scripture, the revelation, which is the inmost meaning of the 21 Wright, ofi.
Though this latter proposition is qualitative, to be sure, Cullmann draws out its quantitative implications most fully. The riced for careful tcrminological ant1 lexical stutly ou the words for time such as kniros ant1 nicin is brilliantly set forth by James Barr, Biblical Words for Time (1962), pp. 47-81. d i s s e c t i o n . O n l y t h e exegete w h o takes seriously the question, What does this text mean for mt: now? 4 In this procedure the interpreter is simply starting where he is and is proceeding back to where the original author was.