Re: Meaning & historical information, etc.

From: Somi Chuhon (kittycat@uniserve.com)
Date: Sun Dec 22 1996 - 03:04:22 EST


At 05:20 PM 20/12/96 EST, you wrote:
>
>
>Colleagues,
>
>The distinction between meaning and significance is not a novelty of which
hermeneutics scholars
>need to be apprised. It is a problematic, but useful, way of simplifying a
more complicated state of
>affairs. If we really want to transform b-greek into b-hermeneutics for a
while, I'll rise to the bait
>that is being set for me; this is familiar terrain for me, and I relish a
vigorous and demanding
>discussion of hermeneutics. But on this list, I honestly, really, just want
to argue with my
>interlocutors about absolute clauses, tense and aspect, and so on.
>
>Wishing you grace and peace in this holy season,
>A K M Adam
>f49adam@ptsmail.ptsem.edu
>Princeton Theological Seminary
>
>"A theory of truth is one theory too many"
>

Let me ask you, where else shall we discuss such an important topic? Surely
the best ones to comment on this issue are ones who know the text grammatically!
Somi.
ACTS Graduate Student
Langley, B.C.
Old Testament Studies



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