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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...

with which actual communal membership has already burdened us. Participation in a community in which ‘the canon’ is operative is consistent both with the belief that Jesus was a deceiver who sought to lead the people astray and who has done untold harm in the world, and with the belief that the entire canonical literature points to him as its centre and goal. The form of the canon presupposed in this latter belief has served on occasion to legitimate the ideological and material harrassment and oppression
Pages 44–45
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