John Hobbins on Exegesis
John Hobbins has produced an excellent post on exegesis, The unacceptable limits of traditional exegesis, in which he calls us to keep the various senses of the text together, or perhaps in tension.
At some time I would like to extend this discussion to the use of the various disciplines we normally bundle under the label “historical-critical method.” It seems to me that aficionados of one discipline tend to ignore the others. The meanings of the text are a continuum that extends from the prehistory of the text to its present reading. At some point I’ll have to say more about that.