Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Modern Day Interpretations
In class someone brought up the idea of taking the bible and interpretation it to more of a modern day religion. In my opinion, that is what philosophers like Crossan are doing. During our reading of Jesus Crossan is making an attempt to propose all possible explanations of the way Jesus lived and his motives. While we have come across some of these explanations, some disputes rise when comparing the explanations to the Christan faith. I believe these disputes have encouraged more research and more thought in this field and therefore have made a modern day interpretation.
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I would disagree that Crossan is trying to take on a modern interpretation of Jesus. He is rather working from a different set of methodology, based in anthropology, to come to his conclusion.
ReplyDeleteI think if someone was to take a modern interpretation of the Bible, they would do the exact opposite; they would view the Bible through the lenses of the modern world, not of first century Palestine.