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Title: Closed-Minded Hermeneutics? A Proposed Alternative Translation for Luke 24:45 (Essay)
Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
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For these words have not been fashionably arranged by me, nor embellished by human technique, but rather David sang them, Isaiah preached them, Zechariah heralded them, Moses recorded them. Do you recognize them Trypho? They are stored up in your Scriptures, or rather not in yours but in ours, for we are obedient to them, but when you read them, you do not understand the "mind" in them [[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]]. (1) (Justin Martyr, Dial. 29.2) Given the profound hermeneutical implications of Luke 24:45 regarding the relationship between the NT and the OT, critical scholarship has paid surprisingly little attention to this verse in its own right. (2) Yet Luke 24:45 gives what must be regarded as one of the most important statements in the NT regarding the manner in which Christian readers appropriate the Jewish Scriptures: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. In modern parlance, the verse has been consistently translated across the major modern research languages as something akin to the following: "Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures" (NRSV), "Da offnete er ihnen das Verstandnis, so dass sie die Schrift verstanden" (Luther [1984]), or "Allors il leur ouvrit l'esprit a l'intelligence des Ecritures" (Bible de Jerusalem [1961]). The hermeneutical implications that derive from this reading are simple yet far-reaching. Put quite simply, it was necessary for Jesus to "open the minds" of his disciples in order for them properly to interpret the Scriptures. Apart from Jesus' special action, their mental faculties were hermeneutically deficient. Moreover, there is a corollary to the need for Christian illumination. As Michael Wolter states regarding Luke 24:45: