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In Chapter 2 we have seen that typology as a linguistic phenomenon has to be completed in reading. Our conclusion was that every reading is both a rewriting and an interpretation of the text. We have also seen that the text itself was interpretation and that interpretation was an act ‘of’ the text rather than an act ‘on’ the text. The text is in action if it is inspired, and inspiration is not the result of authorial intention but a quality of the text. If the text is inspired by God, it also inspires God, it inspires a reading in tune with its writing: if the ultimate ‘author’ was God, then the ultimate ‘reader’ of the text is God as well.

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  1. Attila Jozsef University, Budapest, Hungary

    Tibor Fabiny (Lecturer in English Literature)

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Fabiny, T. (1992). Reading Scripture. In: The Lion and the Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22113-4_3

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