Theological Attitudes toward the Scriptural Text: Lessons from the Qumran and Syriac Exegetical Traditions

Abstract

The author examines how current textual-critical views and premodern attitudes toward the scriptural text offer today's theologians helpful perspectives on the Scriptures. The Qumran and Syriac exegetical traditions provide premodern examples of how interpretive communities of faith can read the Scriptures in a way that is both attentive to their literary form and richly theological.