Comments on: A fuzzy-edged Bible (1)

By: Metacatholic | Scripture: still with fuzzy edges

Metacatholic | Scripture: still with fuzzy edges — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:53:59 +0000

[...] turn firmly locates scripture as a tradition, a range of books that I have elsewhere referred to as a fuzzy-edged Bible. (Irrelevant note: typing that phrase into Google returns this blog as the first hit!) Scripture is [...]

By: doug

doug — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:24:20 +0000

I don’t think so. Even if the quotation comes from a different interpretative community, it is still a text tradition quoted in scripture as scripture, while not itself being in the canon of those (us) who hold a different interpretative tradition to be scripture. That difference (whatever the mechanism behind it - which can only be guesswork) is itself what I mean by a “fuzzy edge”

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:49:57 +0000

Actually, I would argue for a fixed text with different interpretations. If the quotations come from a community of interpretation that we are not familiar, it leaves the text “unfuzzy.” dt http://www.davetilma.com

By: doug

doug — Sun, 13 May 2007 16:48:40 +0000

What you suggest is not impossible, but I think the simple answer is we don’t know. Either way, it points a more complex text tradition witnessed to as scripture instead of simply assuming there is an original fixed text which alone is inspired

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 13 May 2007 03:32:52 +0000

Could these quotations come from more mystical interpretation/translations of various passages. Could the author of these NT scriptures be assuming a knowledge of underlying meanings, or bypassing a step(s) of interpretation/manipulation? dt http://www.davetilma.com