Luke and Yoder : an intertextual reading of the third gospel in the name of Christian politics

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Critical New Testament study has drawn on analytical techniques and interrogatory methods from awide range of disciplines. In recent decades the dominance of historical and ecclesiologicallylocatedapproaches have been challenged by insights from literary, sociological, anthropological,cultural and ideological scholarship. These challenges have proved fruitful and opened biblicalscholarship to new and generative interpretation. This plurality of interpretation has in turnchallenged the reductionism of biblical scholarship, leading to the now common acknowledgementthat a particular reading or reconstruction is but one of many. Unfortunately many new readingshave been too tightly bound to a single method or insight. The broad interaction between thesereadings has been often overlooked. In contrast to this trend an epistemology of text emerging fromthe poststructural notion of intertextuality allows the construction of links between a range ofinterpretive methods. Intertextuality emerges from literary and cultural theory but spills over tomake hermeneutical connections with historical, cultural and ideological theory. For the most partNew Testament scholars who have appropriated the term have noted this but not thoroughlyexplored it. In this study an ideologically-declared overtly intertextual approach to the thirdcanonical gospel demonstrates the interlinking hermeneutic allowed by intertextuality. John HowardYoder's reading of the gospel of Luke underscores the development of a Christian social-ethic. Thisreading in turn forms the framework for the more overtly intertextual reading offered here. Anintertextual reading of the New Testament Scriptures is both narratively generative and politicallydirective for many Christian communities.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University