From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Thu Jan 29 1998 - 15:30:44 EST
At 03:14 PM 1/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
>D. A. Carson has written a good book called *Exegetical Fallacies*, and I
>think that this might be an illustration "illegitimate totality transfer" (p.
>62). I see this fallacy on the list from time to time--"The fallacy in this
>instance lies in the supposition that the meaning of a word in a specific
>context is much broader than the context itself allows and may bring with it
>the word's entire semantic range."
>
An interesting book- but not without its own logical flaws.
>Now, I still think that there is an irony in the passage about the use of the
>passive and the absence of the man. But I doubt that it was an irony intended
>by either the scribes or pharisees or even the author of this passage.
>
John is intentionally ironic numerous times. See the great commentary by
Ray Brown.
>Cindy Westfall
>PhD Student, Roehampton
Jim
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