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Old Testament Cosmology and Divine Accommodation: A Relevance Theory Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

In order to reconcile the discrepancies between ancient and modern cosmology, confessional scholars from every viewpoint on the interpretation of the early chapters of Genesis agree that God accommodated language to finite human understanding. But in the history of interpretation, no consensus has emerged regarding what accommodation entails at the linguistic level. More precise consideration of...

what is termed “relevance theory” to explain how this interpretive process operates. Even though extrabiblical context has always been acknowledged in hermeneutics, the methodological emphasis in the past has focused primarily on semantics and grammar. This is perhaps due to the fact that until the 1950s, communication theory in general worked with a code model that attended to grammatical syntax and to the semantics of words that could be
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