Hermeneutik, rättvisa, och interreligiös samproduktion

Receptionsteorins potential för bibelvetenskapenen

Abstract

This article argues why the reception history of the Bible should be a natural part of biblical scholarship – a not entirely obvious alliance. The first argument assumes that if a text is seen as a container of ”capacity to mean” rather than a container of ”[a certain] meaning,” it is not enough to understand a biblical text simply by studying its original context, but one must also examine how it has emerged over time and in different contexts. The second argument connects to the openness that the first argument creates and emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility both in terms of interpretive issues and in terms of the choice of research and teaching material – it is always someone’s tradition that is selected as relevant and someone else’s that is classified as less relevant. The third approach provides historical retrospectives on how the meaning of the Bible has been ”co-produced” by Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the struggle for interpretive primacy and discusses the importance of interdisciplinarity in understanding a material that does not allow itself to be governed by our disciplinary boundaries.