volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 55-72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsINQS9275
Published online: 2009-06-01
Published in print: 2009-06-30

Abstract: The problematics of the biblical interpretation was one of the topics of the Synod of Bishops in 2008 about the Word of God. There are many interpretative methods and approaches to the Scripture, yet Historical Critical Method remains the privileged one. All of the potentialities of the Bible support a pluralist reading of the biblical text today. If we desire to know and to make sense of the New Testament and its hermeneutics, we have to be acquainted with the Old Testament. Moreover, the New Testament itself is a witness to the Jewish interpretative methods. Nevertheless, the Christian reading of the Scripture is Christological, because Jesus Christ is its interpretative key. Judaic interpretation has two levels of reading the Scripture: Peshat a Derash, to which correspond two basic early Christian interpretations. The first type is allegorical (Alexandria); the second type, represented by Antiochian school, is historical. Since the Sacred Scriptures originate in the Apostolic tradition, they cannot survive without it. In this tradition the only real meaning of the Scripture is that, which has its origin in the Holy Spirit.