The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers by Abner Chou

Author:Abner Chou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kregel Publications

Synthesis

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. We can apply a similar logic to the situation of the apostles. If the apostles claim to build upon the prophets’ intent and logic, if they depict themselves as the prophets continued, and if they actually read the Scriptures intertextually like the prophets, then most likely they continue the prophetic hermeneutic. The evidence suggests the apostles highly aligned themselves with the prophets as opposed to viewing themselves as distinct.

As I have stated above, such evidence is preliminary; nonetheless, it is still significant. These observations collectively evidence that the apostles thought they were advancing the work of the prophets as opposed to going off on another trajectory. While they could have been disingenuous, for us to look at their use of the Old Testament to find hermeneutical discontinuity would be disingenuous of us. If the apostles claim to base their ideas upon the Old Testament and appeared to read the Old Testament as their predecessors did, we should be more inclined to look at their work in that light as opposed to automatically assuming otherwise. Thus, the apostles’ assertions give us a platform to see whether the continuation of the prophetic hermeneutic helps to fill out the apostles’ rationale. After all, they claimed to think in this way. We just need to see if they actually did what they said.

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