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Book Review Of Selected Studies On Prophetic Interpretation, By William H. Shea, Richard M. Davidson
Book Review Of Selected Studies On Prophetic Interpretation, By William H. Shea, Richard M. Davidson
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Book Review Of Selected Studies On Prophetic Interpretation, By William H. Shea, Richard M. Davidson
Book Review Of Selected Studies On Prophetic Interpretation, By William H. Shea, Richard M. Davidson
Richard M. Davidson
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The Resurrection Motif In Hosea 5:8-6:6: An Exegetical Study, Bertrand C. Pryce
The Resurrection Motif In Hosea 5:8-6:6: An Exegetical Study, Bertrand C. Pryce
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This study investigates Hos 5:8-6:6 in an attempt to discover the mode and function of the resurrection motif. Chapter 1 surveys the interpretation of Hos 5:8-6:6 since the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Previous discussion of this passage, notwithstanding a few careful exegetical and pointed treatments, is in the main cursory, not comprehensive and detailed, or engages in alteration of the MT. The studies reviewed support either a healing, historical/political, or resurrection viewpoint of Hos 6:1-3. These conclusions are for the most part not buttressed by a detailed and close scrutiny of each verse and similar contexts …
A Hermeneutic Of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, And The Bible And Book Of Mormon, Alan Goff
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As methods by which texts are to be understood, positivism and historicism have a long tradition and continue to exert wide influence in all academic disciplines. Other approaches to textual concerns have recently emerged to challenge the dominance of these two approaches. Foremost among these new approaches are hermeneutics and deconstruction. Both of the latter approaches recognize that interpretation is inescapable. The latter challenges even the possibility of determinate meaning. A theoretical discussion of historicism and positivism uncovers questionable and troublesome difficulties. Hermeneutics in its conservative or radical variations overcomes the difficulties of interpretation that positivism and historicism can't explain. …