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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...

second occasion marks the failure of his plan to restore Joseph to his father. Far from their fulfilling the same role, Judah outwits Reuben by means of the sale.10 This discussion has shown that, in a case where historical criticism proves unable to solve the problems it sets itself, the textual phenomena that give rise to these problems may be more satisfactorily integrated into a different reading perspective. However, since ‘literary’ readings such as this one are now commonplace, and since
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