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Many linguistic tools and methods are applied to biblical texts in order to gain meaning from them. Such applications do not always take into account the perspective of the investigators, the presuppositions of the methods used and the nature of the material to which it is applied. These are all factors that influence the meaning obtained from the text. Linguistic Analysis of Biblical Hebrew...

majority of biblical texts nevertheless have a history of redaction and transmission, so when interpreters claim to have discovered the author’s intention, they need to be able to specify which author. Is it ‘the original author’, a particular redactor like the Deuteronomist, the person or group responsible for the text as it existed at a certain point in time, the Masoretes for instance, those responsible for a particular translation or version of the text like Jerome, or the team which produced
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