ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei on the relation of the Bible to revelation is undertaken. The manner of procedure will be to provide an overview of each thinker such that hermeneutic field within which they construe Scripture's implication in a doctrine of revelation is offered. Classic Christian construal's of doctrine of revelation and implication of Scripture within them are in each case rendered problematic through analysis of a historical-critical, hermeneutic-poetic, or literary/social scientific/theological variety. The net effect of the moves is that Scripture's primary nature in relation to God's revelatory and saving action is conflated to human action, textual dynamics, or, at least at the level of textual meaning, reading conventions required by genre type or embedded communal practice. An argument is made that the idiom by which Frei construes the Christian community and its interpretative practices hides from view biblical interpretation as a human act dependent on the illumining work of Holy Spirit.
