ABSTRACT
Hans Frei is the first figure surveyed in this chapter. Vanhoozer's early work is sympathetically located close to the base and in the far left corner in proximity to the early work of Hans Frei. Hans Frei, is one of the purest examples of type one, is highly critical of other type one approaches that he sees as bringing to the reading of the text frameworks for meaning that tend to distort the meaning in the text. Frei frames the contending issues for the proper reading of the narrative in Scripture in Identity as the competition between two fields of human agency; the human authorial agency contained in the text and the agency of the contemporary reader. Derrida is discussing the problems of human agency in reading texts but there is a point at which the uniqueness of Scripture, as related to divine agency, completely escapes the sphere of his attention and the relevance of his criticisms.
