interpreter was to reconstruct the original occasion of the historical reference on the basis of which the truth of the biblical text could be determined. In sum, the sensus literalis [literal sense] had become sensus originalis [original sense].”110 Meaning was to be located somewhere in the space occupied by what the human author intended and the original recipients understood. Outside of the undisputed Letters of Paul, the human author rarely meant an identifiable individual; it included the back-history