[B-Greek] Jn 21.13 & 21.15 How much do you love me?
Curtis Hinson
curtis at curtishinson.com
Sun Dec 17 22:02:40 EST 2006
I suppose this will be my only post on this thought as it's heading
outward from our list topics. But I think a potential issue here is
that particularly with people of literate Western heritage there's a
longstanding tradition of putting pressure on the text to render
definitive answers to theological, even cosmological questions. It's a
modernistic view of canon.
To be fair most of the texts were not designed -- were not written --
with this function in mind. I tend to think there are areas that are
ambiguous because sometimes the author has something different in mind
than what later exegetes would have preferred. Sometimes having a more
natural competency in Greek might merely allow room for ambiguity rather
than trying to analyze it or "autopsy" it to death. A bit of lit crit
is probably a healthy input.
I'm being a bit quieter lately because I think my angst was showing.
:-) It's good to take a break sometimes.
Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
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http://adfontes.ath.cx
Wayne Leman wrote the following on 12/17/2006 12:56 AM:
> I am of the camp that believes that if we understood Greek better, close to
> the competence of its native speakers, there would be far fewer ambiguities
> than we find in the text today. Human communication does not work well with
> too high a number of ambiguities. Many ambiguities in the biblical text are
> there because of our analysis and not authorial intent. So, I encourage
> people to study the context of each passage better, study the theme of a
> passage, study the flow of the logic, attempt to determine what the author's
> overall point was that he was trying to communicate. In many, many cases
> what we think are ambiguities can disappear, and simply be considered as
> relics of the analytical process not taking everything into consideration
> that the original author and his audience had to work with as assumptions.
>
> There are a few intentional ambiguities in the biblical texts. I think any
> other real ambiguities are far less than often suggested. Study, study,
> study! Especially study passages in their total context.
>
> Wayne
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>> If a text is ambiguous in the original, let's keep it
>> that way in translation. Dynamic equivalence theory
>> translators often go overboard to make explicit what
>> is implicit in the original, and often drift into the
>> field of interpretation. In this passage, the
>> antecedent of TOUTWN in v 15 is for interpreters to
>> decide rather than grammarians. Anyway, that's how I
>> see it.
>>
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