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eisegesis the introduction by an interpreter of his own ideas into a text under explication. See also: Bible
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Consequently, he indulged in this eisegesis, "James, the brother of the Lord . An eisegesis which presumes to find theological 'content' here is precisely the opposite of a humanistic hermeneutic. In other words, this passage, to which hunters for homosexuals in the Bible have attributed so much significance, offers a classic case of eisegesis displacing sound exegesis, inadvertently reading into the text what supposedly is to be elicited from a text. |
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