Abstract
The author's reaction to the activities and results of the seminar of Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum (SNTS) on The Role of the Reader in the Interpretation of the New Testament is given from two perspectives. He pays attention to the frame of reference from which the seminar was conceptualised, and secondly he deals with challenges of post-structural and postmodern views on literature for the reading of the New Testament. Although the emphasis was put on reader of New Testament texts, and on reception theory, it was clear from the very start that the investigation would be done within the limits of then current text theory of New Testament scholars. It is assumed that by use of different codes, the reader and meaning of the text are written into the text, and that the sensitive and trained reader is able to decode the text, because meaning is present in the text. Keywords: New Testament; postmodern views; reception theory; Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum (SNTS) ; text theory
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