HOW and WHY

George Goolde goolde at mtnempire.net
Sat Sep 25 19:47:12 EDT 1999


Is it not fair to say that WHY a Greek text means a certain thing is the 
product of one's hermeneutics?  I frankly still do not see how it is 
possible to  separate the interpretation of a given text from the 
principles which underlie one's process of interpretation.  For example, we 
may identify a certain word as a Genitive, but how we interpret it (what we 
think it means) and how we describe it (what kind of a genitive we call it) 
come, do they not, from principles of interpretation and/or 
pre-understandings we bring to the text?		

Carl, I agree with you that what benefits us most is not a simple YEP! or 
NOPE! but the logic behind it.  And for me, as a lifelong 
learner,  understanding that process is of much greater help than someone's 
pontification that announces the ultimate truth about the grammatical 
construction in question.

What think ye all?

George

George A. Goolde
Professor, Bible and Theology
Southern California Bible College & Seminary
El Cajon, California

goolde at mtnempire.net



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