10/07/2025 08:30
- 10:45
HALL: Seminar Room 06
Proponent:
Siquans A.
Chair:
Siquans A.
Speaker:
Bonanno B.,
Elliott M.,
Meiser M.,
Siquans A.
The reception of texts of the Christian Old Testament in the first centuries is coined by the text hermeneutics of late antiquity as well as by philosophical and theological presuppositions. Christian exegesis was based on earlier Jewish work with the biblical text and struggled to find a specific Christian interpretation. This is at the same time a process finding one's own identity and of delimitation and the construction of hermeneutical others, be it "Jews" or "Judaizers" or "heretics". Philology, philosophy and theology, text and community determine the reception of the Bible. The panel presents four examples from the discursive field of early Christian biblical interpretation illustrating the exegetes' engagement with the texts and with different traditions of interpretation.