WOMS210 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
2 Oct 2016
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The process by which human beings understand including the conditions under which it happens (cid:862)to interpret, to explain to make clear(cid:863) Written or spoken word: most often sacred text. Who has spoken of this text and attempted to really hear it and understand what it says. Am i listening as an outsider or as an insider, as one opposed or as one sympathetic. Describing your own phenomenon in its context. Taking a position: academic and personal accountability. We study written documents with textual criticism. Detecting what is wrong with the text. Difficulty of translating the original hebrew bible (hb) First translations were transcribed by hand: therefore, full of potential errors and personal attempts at translation, could be distracted and repeat segments or omit segments, could be transcribed from diction, could have sloppy handwriting difficult to read. By the time of jesus, we have three major versions of the hb.
