"I know the author specifically said his work was not a allegory to this particular thing, but I shall now make the argument that he was wrong." - Every "Academic" that wants to write a book
Can't help but think of the new series Amazon is making based on Tolkien's work. I'm told they're pretty much butchering it by adding contemporary real world issues into fictional Middle Earth. Makes me wonder if I'm doing the same thing to the Bible too.
I remember watching a video by InspiringPhilosophy (I think it might have been this one -> ruclips.net/video/xX2O2aACCOw/видео.html), where IIRC, he made the case that the ancients produced and handled written text in a different way, such that it is completely normal to have two slightly contradictory accounts of the same incident side by side.
100% agree. The sitz im leben can be vital to understanding a text (one can't read Turgenev's Fathers and Sons without understanding the historical context, for example), but liberal theologians took it way too far.
"I know the author specifically said his work was not a allegory to this particular thing, but I shall now make the argument that he was wrong." - Every "Academic" that wants to write a book
Can't help but think of the new series Amazon is making based on Tolkien's work. I'm told they're pretty much butchering it by adding contemporary real world issues into fictional Middle Earth. Makes me wonder if I'm doing the same thing to the Bible too.
Always something we need to keep in mind. It’s a temptation for all of us.
As a former futurist, now preterist, I can freely admit I did that very thing!
I remember watching a video by InspiringPhilosophy (I think it might have been this one -> ruclips.net/video/xX2O2aACCOw/видео.html), where IIRC, he made the case that the ancients produced and handled written text in a different way, such that it is completely normal to have two slightly contradictory accounts of the same incident side by side.
100% agree. The sitz im leben can be vital to understanding a text (one can't read Turgenev's Fathers and Sons without understanding the historical context, for example), but liberal theologians took it way too far.
Absolutely
Очень интересно! Спасибо! You are doing great work! Very insightful! Keep it up!
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