The ‘Jew’ as the Perpetual Other

Simon_von_Trient_beskurenChristian exegesis has more often than not constructed the ‘Jew’ as the perpetual other. In a forthcoming book with this working title, I begin in New Testament texts, looking for how they describe the relationship to Jews and Judaism. Secondly, I follow the history of exegesis in relation to the Jews, talking about a ‘hermeneutics of exclusion’. Finally I discuss the linkage between exegetical theology and genocide, but not only that. I try to outline a ‘hermeneutics of association’, starting in Romans 9–11.

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The Hermeneutics of Reception

What occupies my research is the two poles of text and reception: – the New Testament, interpreted as closely as possible to the original, being aware of the risk of reading my own thoughts into the text – the reception of the text by new readers, resulting in a ‘new text’ coloured by the new readers horizon. No serious exegesis can disregard the fundamental laws of interpretation, exemplified in the scholarly reception of the texts.