Emerging From Babel

Scripture is complex and plural, according to Walter Brueggemann. Even the Ten Commandments immediately generated two alternate streams of interpretation. Thus our deepest obedience cannot be to an absolute norm but to the biblical texts themselves. The texts constantly disturb and disorient us. We are never permitted to settle on a final interpretation. We must forever return to Sinai, to interpret and reinterpret the biblical texts anew.