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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...

the perspective of faith this can be highly disconcerting. Many readers who believe the Hebrew Bible to be the word of God expect that ‘word’ to be obvious and definitive; they are unnerved to find that it can be interpreted in various ways and provide potentially many meanings. Scholars have tried to limit the potential meanings of a text by asserting that the real meaning is determined by the author. Reading the basic hermeneutical model from left to right, it is claimed that the
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