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What is the main point of contention between modern biblical scholarship and Benjamin Jowett?
What is the main point of contention between modern biblical scholarship and Benjamin Jowett?
The disagreement is over the application of Jowett's hermeneutical theory in his exegetical practice.
What does biblical scholarship hope to achieve in understanding a biblical text?
What does biblical scholarship hope to achieve in understanding a biblical text?
Biblical scholarship hopes to recover the original intention of the author of a biblical text.
What is considered the only valid meaning of a biblical text according to the text?
What is considered the only valid meaning of a biblical text according to the text?
The most primitive meaning of the text is its only valid meaning.
Biblical scholars today agree with Jowett's reconstruction of the gospels.
Biblical scholars today agree with Jowett's reconstruction of the gospels.
The quarrel between modern biblical scholarship and Jowett is mainly over his hermeneutical theory.
The quarrel between modern biblical scholarship and Jowett is mainly over his hermeneutical theory.
Biblical scholarship considers the pre-critical exegetical tradition as beneficial to the proper understanding of a biblical text.
Biblical scholarship considers the pre-critical exegetical tradition as beneficial to the proper understanding of a biblical text.
The most primitive meaning of a biblical text is not considered its only valid meaning.
The most primitive meaning of a biblical text is not considered its only valid meaning.
The historical-critical method is not regarded as the key to unlock the true meaning of a biblical text according to the text.
The historical-critical method is not regarded as the key to unlock the true meaning of a biblical text according to the text.
Benjamin Jowett argued that Scripture should be interpreted like any other book.
Benjamin Jowett argued that Scripture should be interpreted like any other book.
The recovery of the original meaning of the biblical text does not pose great difficulties.
The recovery of the original meaning of the biblical text does not pose great difficulties.
The interpreter, armed with the proper linguistic tools, will find that universal truth easily breaks through the accidents of time and place.
The interpreter, armed with the proper linguistic tools, will find that universal truth easily breaks through the accidents of time and place.
Benjamin Jowett foresaw great difficulties in the way of the recovery of the original meaning of the text.
Benjamin Jowett foresaw great difficulties in the way of the recovery of the original meaning of the text.
Proper interpretation for a biblical text requires imagination and the ability to put oneself into an alien cultural situation.
Proper interpretation for a biblical text requires imagination and the ability to put oneself into an alien cultural situation.
