Intertextuality in Biblical Exegesis

The Pontifical Biblical Commission in the document “Interpretation of the Bible in the Church” places the phenomenon of intertextuality within the semiotic method. Can the phenomenon also be understood as a method? One can, but it imposes a number of conditions. The publication presents intertextuality in biblical studies, along with the limitations that arise from the necessity of treating biblical texts as inspired. The relationship of literary research to literary-theological research does not allow an uncritical approach to the biblical text of the Bible in a postmodern spirit. The subjective decomposition (deconstruction) of the biblical text threatens the search for and finding of the meaning of the message of the Word of God, its message. This is because it introduces the category of subjective truth. However intertextuality in the Bible a natural phenomenon, but it demands in hermeneutical explication the preservation of the principles of biblical hermeneutics, not limited to the hermeneutics of literary research.