Sentences with phrase «intended meaning of the text»

Such deductions must stem from an appreciation of the intended meaning of the text which is mediated through specific literary forms.

My reasoning for adding the Matthew Strong's Exhausted Concordance Commentary Numbers and recantation in Hebrew, is because you must understand the root meaning of certain words to understand the Author's intended meaning of the text.

Not exact matches

The overwhelming majority of readers seem to have understood that such exercises were meant to be hyperbolic and provocative, intended to bring some of the Bible's most interesting word pictures to life, and to illustrate, Amelia Bedelia - style, the futility of a hyper - literal application of the text.

the point of reading is not to restate the meaning intended by the author but to engage the text in creative thought, often by means of punning play with the text.

Content to maintain the tradition, those same evangelicals at times resort to a simplistic reading of a text that distorts its intended meaning.

Such investigation, however, can only throw light on the cultural and literary background of the text it does not give us its divinely intended meaning.

In this section I intend to illustrate the christological hermeneutic by showing how it bears on scriptural exposition My aim is not to give an exegesis of the texts in question but simply to show the kind of approach I would use in discovering the meaning of Scripture.

Any exposition which intended to penetrate beneath the simple straightforward meaning of the text and gain from it all that it might be regarded as saying by implication was called a midrash.8 There were two types of midrash.

Building upon his understanding that written texts can burst the world of the author, and indeed that of the reader as well, and upon his understanding that different genres accomplish this in different ways, Ricoeur comes to his understanding of «the world of the text» or, in other citations, «the world in front of the text,» by which he means «the... world intended beyond the text as its reference.

This means that the students that Mr. Poland is intentionally sending us can not read high school level texts or materials, yet Mr. Poland intends on evaluating us based on the new so - called «Smarter Balance» common core tests, tests that the students can not possibly pass because district mandate has advanced them without having held them to standards in the name of fraudulent graduation rates.

Rebecca Williams, of Welsh education union UCAC, said it was impossible to guarantee the translated text would capture the precise meaning pupils intended.

The buttons for paging through texts look smaller, too; I was among those who liked the larger buttons (it meant I didn't page through with just one finger or part of my hand; but, I, like everyone, found those buttons also meant I inadvertently paged ahead when I didn't intend to).

In most cases you'll be able to figure out the intended meaning of the poorly OCR'd text.

Lowman too is interested in the constant breakdown of communication and how images and text can never merely mean what is intended.

«cyberbullying» means any electronic communication through the use of technology including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, computers, other electronic devices, social networks, text messaging, instant messaging, websites and electronic mail, typically repeated or with continuing effect, that is intended or ought reasonably be expected to cause fear, intimidation, humiliation, distress or other damage or harm to another person's health, emotional well - being, self - esteem or reputation, and includes assisting or encouraging such communication in any way.

These texts intend to facilitate e-commerce transactions by establishing rules to allow the electronic equivalent of paper - based documents to be legally recognised, thereby removing obstacles encountered by the use of electronic means.