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This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Fourth, I believe that Crossan, in common (be it said) with the great majority of New Testament scholars, has misunderstood the nature of apocalyptic. Just as Crossan ‘reads’ Jesus’ healings, and his open table-fellowship, as indicating a profoundly subversive intent within the world of his day, so I have argued elsewhere that ‘apocalyptic’ writing
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This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
My point is that the genre itself is the problem. As long as Christian scholars insist that they are simply “describing” the theology that is really “in” the text itself, and they arrive at their conclusions using historical criticism, as long as the “meaning” they claim to “find” in the text is supposed to be also what the ancient author “intended
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