Exegetical Puns

The Question of a Stagnant Marxism: Is Marxism Exegetical or Scientific? - Cosmonaut

I want to get ya'll opinions on this article which problematizes a "stagnant" Marxism that is content to interpreting itself rather than developing new theory. Do you think stagnant tendencies persist in Marxism as the author argues? And if so, how could we transcend these?

Anyone got any recommendations for books which would be a good starting point for this??

Also, I’m about to begin Pusey’s work on real presence in the Fathers, but I would really love to have the biblical exegesis to accompany that.

(After another discussion with /u/HmanTheChicken I decided I might as well be more active here.)

Few passages pull on the heartstrings as much as the story of the woman caught in adultery found in the beginning of John 8. However, a large number of Bible readers, Christians and non-Christians alike, aren't aware that the authenticity of the passage (also known as the Pericope Adulterae) is disputed. What follows is a brief exegetical argument against the placement of the PA in its traditional location in John (7:53-8:11). For the most part, I will not be addressing manuscript evidence, etc., nor will I be arguing that the story is wholly illegitimate.

The basic argument is that I believe a strong case can be made that John 8:12 was intended by the original author to follow John 7:52, with Jesus making an allusion to Isaiah 9:1-2. In response to the challenge to Nicodemus to "search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee," Jesus replies that "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." This mirrors Isaiah's prophecy very closely:

> But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. > > The people who walked in darkness
> have seen a great light;
>those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
> on them has light shone.

It seems to me that this adds weight to the manuscript-based legitimacy concerns. At the very least, it presents a case that it could be the insertion of a later editor who didn't recognize the narrative continuity between the story in chapter 7 and the story in chapter 8:12ff (which does not necessarily make the passage itself illegitimate, just misplaced). I believe this more likely to be the case than the theory that the early lectionaries ending the 7:52 reading with 8:12 eventually caused editors to remove the PA.

I didn't make up this argument, I heard it first from a former pastor of mine, and I imagine that he may have gleaned it from a commentary. I have never seen a reference to a similar argument in the usual literature on the PA's authenticity, but if someone has a source (or a counter-argument) I would love to hear it.

Does anyone know of any good exegetical lectures, sermons, or podcast shows on Jonah? Ones that dig into the Hebrew would be ideal.

> Despite its teaching of “no dependence upon words and letters,” Chan did not reject the scriptures of the Buddhist canon, but simply warned of the futility of relying on them for the attainment of emancipating insight.

> The sacred texts—and much more so the huge exegetical apparatus that had grown up around them in the older scholastic schools—were regarded as no more than signposts pointing the way to liberation.

> Valuable though they were as guides, they needed to be transcended in order for one to awaken to the true intent of Śākyamuni’s teachings.

~ R.F. Sasaki - The Record of Linji, p. 62

I've been assigned to do an exegetical interpretation of a passage from a text important to Japanese Philosophy. Does anybody have a recommendation of a passage which might be easy for beginners? I have done exegesis before but am relatively new to Japanese Phil. The passage needs to be in English and available for free or low cost online.

I've posted a review on my blog (here). What's particularly helpful about this book is that it shows how a knowledge of biblical Greek is a useful tool for exegesis.

After minutes of carefully reading the applicable passages from the Christian holy texts, presented with the illuminating work of italicizing and emboldening key phrases by /u/ProfessorFreeMind, and nearly an hour of carefully making sarcastic comments, we have come to this conclusion: Christians are cherry-pickers. If you really wanted to be a committed Christian you would stone people to death like Muslims.

I think I am seeing a lot of exegetical and logical fallacies in my church community group. I want to give resources and possibly teach from good resources on how to spot error for ourselves.

I am reading Exegetical Fallacies by Don Carson and How to Read and Apply the New Testament by Andrew Naselli. What resources would you suggest and what errors/fallacies are you seeing?

Stuff that stood out to me from Eris Morn's season of arrivals lore book. This will only discuss stuff that's already happened. If you know spoiler stuff, please DO NOT share.

From last entry contact. Eris is warning us to look for stuff showing the "enemy's influence."

>Errors or crashes in Vex constructs.

Sounds like endless night

>Eruptions of empowered or self-destructive Hive sorcery.

Sounds like wrathborn

>Newly created Scorn. Revels and expeditions by the worshippers of the narcissist emperor.

Sounds like presage/glykon. It's also possible that "newly created Scorn" could refer to season 15?

As an aside...Eris talks twice about being betrayed by her "own comrades." From Conviction:

>The enemy warns me of great atrocities couched in valor, violence born from supreme conviction...A warning against my own comrades.

This makes me think of Saladin's outbursts against the Cabal and the people of the city attacking the house of light fallen.

and camouflage:

>But I am sure that this warning is genuine… and that it points to a threat in our own ranks. There are inflections to this logograph that speak of a killer hidden in plain sight.

This could be a lot of things, but I've not gotten into the end of season spoilers, so I don't know.

Check out my latest book review—Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek (Benjamin L. Merkle, Baker Academic, 2019).

https://niedergall.com/book-review-exegetical-gems-from-biblical-greek/