Word: textualism
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...introduction, Dahood says that Schaeffer has unearthed such an embarrassment of riches that "one finds scholars debating in learned journals whether Ras Shamra or Qumran has contributed more to an understanding of the Old Testament." The most obvious value of Ugaritic research to Biblical study is linguistic and textual. By comparing Ugaritic texts with Hebrew, scholars have been able to recover the original meaning of many Hebrew words. In Proverbs 31:3, for example, which the King James version translates as "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings," the word "ways" should...
Evangelical thinkers take an enlightened view of scriptural inerrancy. They concede the need for textual criticism, admit that many passages must be interpreted symbolically rather than literally. But they also argue that the Bible as a whole is of divine authority and cannot teach falsehood. Belief in its infallibility, therefore, is an essential of consistent Christianity, a test of all orthodoxy-and, above all, a commandment of the Lord...
...reads like the first crude script of a Harlow movie-happy but sappy, and crammed with such insights as: "Funny that a man should want you tanned all over." An earnest preface suggests that the girl who brought back the bosom also had a brain, but on the textual evidence, it can be said that she was at most a size 32A in the literary department...
That sounds innocent enough, but the order's vague verbiage has already set off a battle between rival schools of textual interpretation. "Keep the Institute away from Harvard," one party begs. "There is already enough academic comment on policy--let this be a place where real politicians can come to talk over their problems and get people excited about them...
...nature (the Yahoos). In any case, the horror and tragedy of Swift's old age are clearly foretold in the leading characteristic of the Yahoos: their excessive concern I with ordure. From that time forward, scatological allusions litter his prose and befoul his poetry. On the textual evidence, it would seem that his lifelong horror of women, his refusal of all sexual contact with them, was rooted in his horror of their excrement...