http://judyredman.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/writing-for-the-web-vs-writing-for-print/ musings mainly related to my PhD on the Gospel of Thomas Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:05:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://judyredman.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/writing-for-the-web-vs-writing-for-print/#comment-537 Simon Holloway Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:01 +0000 http://judyredman.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-537 You raise some interesting points, but I suppose the decision to use "people" or "men" in 2 Timothy may rest upon whether you wish to employ a "hermeneutics of suspicion" or a "hermeneutics of reconstruction". The former would recognise that the original author of the text may have only had men in mind, and is thus faithful to the original import. The latter would recognise that the text is a dynamic text and that it is read by an organic community; whatever the "original" meaning may or may not have been, new communities can render words in such a fashion as to include those who were previously marginalised. You raise some interesting points, but I suppose the decision to use “people” or “men” in 2 Timothy may rest upon whether you wish to employ a “hermeneutics of suspicion” or a “hermeneutics of reconstruction”. The former would recognise that the original author of the text may have only had men in mind, and is thus faithful to the original import. The latter would recognise that the text is a dynamic text and that it is read by an organic community; whatever the “original” meaning may or may not have been, new communities can render words in such a fashion as to include those who were previously marginalised.

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