- Krister Stendahl, “Biblical Theology” in The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the
Bible (4 vols.; Nashville: Abingdon, 1962), 1:418–432, esp. 419. - Anthony C. Thistleton, The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics
and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann,
Gadamer, and Wittgenstein (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980). - Hirsch, Aims , 79–80.
- Umberto Eco, The Limits of Interpretation (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 1990), 46. - Hirsch, Aims , 146.
- Hirsch, Aims , 146.
- Hirsch, Aims , 80.
- Yet one wonders if allegorizing a text not intended as an allegory by the
author is true polyvalence. - The concept is Eco’s although this precise phrase comes from Stephan
Collini’s preface to Eco’s Interpretation and Overinterpretation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). - Eco, Limits, 58. This statement is also found in Overinterpretation , 64.
- Eco, Overinterpretation , 64–65.
- Umberto Eco, “The Author and his Interpreters,” 1996 lecture at The
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, accessed Jan. 10, 2014,
http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_author.html. - The professor was Bernard Bachrach, Professor of History at the University
of Minnesota. Which battle was under discussion has faded from my
memory. - Eco, Overinterpretation , 139.
- Eco, Overinterpretation , 68; Geoffrey Hartman, Criticism in the Wilderness
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980), 28. - Eco, Overinterpretation , 68–69.
- Hirsch, Aims , 8.
- Eco, Overinterpretation , 48.
- Eco, Overinterpretation , 48.
- It is common for Reformed scholars to interpret the Spirit baptism
described in Acts 2 through the lens of 1 Cor. 12:13 despite the clear dif-
ferences between Luke’s presentation of the Spirit’s work throughout
Luke-Acts and Paul’s presentation. - Let me make clear that this is not true of all who identify themselves as
“liberal” Protestants, but it is certainly true of many. It is also true of some,
but not all, in the “Red Letter Christians” and the Post-Conservative
Evangelical movements. - For a clear and objective discussion of this trend, see L. William Oliverio,
Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A
Typological Account (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 253–314.
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