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- Title
TRUTH AND FULLNESS OF MEANING: FULLNESS VERSUS REDUCTIONIST SEMANTICS IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION.
- Authors
Poythress, Vern Sheridan
- Abstract
The article discusses fullness and reductionist semantics approaches in biblical interpretation. Assumptions about language influence approach to word meanings and Bible translation. Formal symbolic logic flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with the work of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. Bible translator Eugene Nida had developed the theory of dynamic equivalence which emphasized the importance of transferring meaning not grammatical form in bible interpretation.
- Subjects
BIBLICAL criticism; SEMANTICS (Philosophy); REDUCTIONISM; MEANING (Philosophy); BIBLICAL translations; SYMBOLISM in the Bible; NIDA, Eugene
- Publication
Westminster Theological Journal, 2005, Vol 67, Issue 2, p211
- ISSN
0043-4388
- Publication type
Article