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Francis Watson contends that the new approaches make it possible to rethink the relationship of Biblical studies to Christian theology. If interpretation is determined in part by the perspective of the interpreter, then it no longer makes sense to insist that historical questions about the test’s origins must always be given priority over explorations of its theological potential. Indeed, given...

equally routinely criticized for misuse of the biblical texts in seeking their support for theological decisions reached on other grounds. This is, however, a local or regional issue that cannot adequately be treated within the sphere of a general hermeneutics or literary theory. What is true of the biblical texts is not necessarily true of other kinds of text; the idea that the Bible should be read ‘just like any other book’ is misleading, not just as a statement about the Bible but also in its
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