Readings, readers and authors: an orientation

Abstract

Are readings of Luke being proposed in this volume evidence of readers finding in text what they want? Different readings of same text can be related to different manifestations of the reader. Yet a responsible reading of text implies taking text as a speech-act functioning in a communicative context. The role of author and context therefore becomes important again. The concept of foolproof composition is relevant too as it implies exclusion of possibility of a counterreading of text. The phenomenon of inspiration of a sacred text also functions as a constraint.

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