Metode clasice şi moderne în înţelegerea ştiinţifică a Sfintei Scripturi
Classical and Modern Methods in the Scientific Understanding of the Holy Scripture

Summary/Abstract: Interpretation of the Scripture nowadays needs to be considered starting from the contemporary human’s need to re-read this monumental work, at the same time allowing for the multitude of methods and meanings available. Starting from meanings, we wonder what did he human author intend, and what did God want to transmit but nevertheless remained hidden to the human author. In this direction there are the important Encyclicals of Pope Pius XII (+1958), namely Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943). The Vatican Council II shall open up for Catholics the possibility to research the literary meaning of the Scripture through the historical-critical method. Under the influence of Simon Richard the nineteenth and twentieth centuries bring about the dispute between the literary exegesis and the supra-literal one. The second half of the twentieth century brings along a dilemma which lies at the heart of nowadays hermeneutics, namely: What did the Scripture mean when it was written? and What does it mean to me? A. von Harnack (+1930), K Barth (+1968), and R. Bultman (+1976) tackle the interpretation of the Scripture starting from different premises, the last insisting on demythologization as a means of rendering accurate the interpretation of the text. M. Heidegger (+1976) insists on a hermeneutics which starts from interpreting the being and from the terms of language function. E. Fuchs (n. 1903) and G. Ebeling (n. 1912) follow the same direction, while Gadamer (+2002) intervenes from the domain of philosophy claiming that a person’s understanding of a text differs from the author’s intended understanding.

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