Michael Riffaterre’s ‘Interpretant’ Reinterpreted. An Approach for the Hypertextual Reading of Wisdom and Romans
Michael Riffaterre’s ‘Interpretant’ Reinterpreted. An Approach for the Hypertextual Reading of Wisdom and Romans

Summary/Abstract: Bible exegesis is dealing at times with the accusation of superficial implementa-tion of methods from various fields of science and of disrespect for the theological charac-ter of the Bible in hermeneutical and methodological presuppositions. This accusation can be directed also towards the many uses of intertextuality in biblical scholarship. The ar-ticle challenges this situation and proposes what has been called a ‘theological model of intertextual interpretation’ – an approach based on literary theory of the ‘interpretant’ as understood by Michaele Riffaterre – that tends to respect more fully the theological character of the biblical text. After a detailed description of the approach and its method-ological elements, the second part of the article deals with an example of the application of thereof – an intertextual exegesis of Rom 2:7 and Wis 2:23; Wis 6:18.19.

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