I’m really enjoying getting into the new book Christology, Hermeneutics, and Hebrews: Profiles from the History of Interpretation (ed. Laansma & Treier). In the opening essay, Laansma asserts:
Epistemological shifts of late medievalism and the Enlightenment led inexorably to the reign of a particular kind of research (Wissenschaft), which decisively shaped the very questions asked of all the biblical literature, questions bound by purely immanent concerns and centered in historical explanation. This defined the guild’s approach to Hebrews (p21)
Bam!
