I love that we have the fancy word ‘eisegesis’ to say ‘interpreting a text to mean whatever tf you like’ - ThreadSky

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drfrancisyoung.bsky.social • 39 days ago

I love that we have the fancy word ‘eisegesis’ to say ‘interpreting a text to mean whatever tf you like’

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blogdignag.bsky.social•38 days ago

Post truth

craigbuchananwa.bsky.social•39 days ago

An extension of the old “the author is dead” argument, I presume.

maniagnosis.bsky.social•39 days ago

You did WHAT with a waffle???

keithjebb.bsky.social•39 days ago

Well, you may say that’s what it means…

tomslists.bsky.social•39 days ago

I read there's a Rabbinic method 'Pilpul assumed that every sentence in the Talmud contains some special meaning which just needed to be teased out by imagination, perception, intuition and hard work, even if this required the splitting of hairs and the subversion of the plain meaning of the text'

tomslists.bsky.social•39 days ago

... it is characteristic of the method to pursue every possible trail leading from the original text.' — Martin Goodman, 'A History of Judaism'

drspacejunk.bsky.social•39 days ago

Oooh. I could find uses for this word.

peebeejaybee.bsky.social•39 days ago

A bit o' that going round at the mo, I reckons

Now why does my brain keep telling the coreect pronunciation is Icy Jesus?

tregovian.bsky.social•39 days ago

So one could be eisegetic, then. Presumably. Like Humpty Dumpty. Or the odd President of the United States, now and again

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