Abstract

The author asks about Christian ways of reading of the Hebrew Bible as a first part of the Christian biblical canon in times after Holocaust. He presents three modern hermeneutical proposals of this reading: Christoph Dohmen’s, Frank Crüsemann’s and Waldemar Chrostowski’s (as representative for Polish roman catholic theology). A Christological lecture of the Hebrew Bible is possible only in the light of the Eastern experience of Jesus’ followers. The lecture is strongly connected with the first century Jewish interpretations but unimaginable without the faith in Jesus’ resurrection. From intertextuality point of view the Christological interpretation of the Hebrew Bible is necessary and inalienable but only within the Christian community of faith. A question whether the Christian Old Testament is the Hebrew Bible or the Septuagint is of minor importance. For understanding of Christian traditions we need the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint, and intertestamental literature.