If It Is True That There Is

If It Is True That There Is Always More Than One Way Of Construing A Text, It Is Not True That All Interpretations Are Equal.

Myth Expresses In Terms Of The World - That Is, Of The Other World Or The Second World - The Understanding That Man Has Of Himself In Relation To The Foundation And The Limit Of His Existence.

This Is Perhaps The Most Profound Meaning Of The Book Of Job, The Best Example Of Wisdom.

But Myth Is Something Else Than An Explanation Of The World, Of History, And Of Destiny. Myth Expresses In Terms Of The World - That Is, Of The Other World Or The Second World - The Understanding That Man Has Of Himself In Relation To The Foundation And The Limit Of His Existence. Hence To Demythologize Is To Interpret Myth, That Is, To Relate The Objective Representations Of The Myth To The Self-understanding Which Is Both Shown And Concealed In It.

So Long As The New Testament Served To Decipher The Old, It Was Taken As An Absolute Norm.