Tuesday, September 3, 2013

What it Means vs. What it Meant

Larry Behrendt's latest engagement with "problem texts" is well worth a read.  Therein he leans heavily on Krister Stendahl's distinction between what the text meant and the text's multiplicity of contemporary meaning.

http://jewishchristianintersections.com/?p=369

-anthony

2 comments:

  1. Do consult Ben Ollenburger's trenchant critique of Stendahl's meant/means dichotomy.

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    1. I plan a post on Stendahl's critics.

      I assume you're referring to "What Krister Stendahl 'Meant'-A Normative Critique of 'Descriptive. Biblical Theology,'" Horizons in Biblical Theology 8 (1986): 61-98? I have not read this article, so perhaps you could discuss why you've recommended it.

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