The two latest blogs at Better Bibles Blog are on ambiguity in the Scriptural text, and they are a fascinating read. If you're interested, have a look.
What I think is that Paul, like most other authors/speakers, would have given some clue when he wrote if he were employing double entendre or some other literary device with intended ambiguity. I pun often, and I almost always put in a pregnant pause in the flow of my speech to try to get a reaction from others to my intended ambiguity. Authors who intentionally use ambiguity want us to catch it, and so they usually signal it in some way, no matter how subtle, and, often, the subtler the better.
Thanks for picking up on my blog posts on ambiguity.
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What I think is that Paul, like most other authors/speakers, would have given some clue when he wrote if he were employing double entendre or some other literary device with intended ambiguity. I pun often, and I almost always put in a pregnant pause in the flow of my speech to try to get a reaction from others to my intended ambiguity. Authors who intentionally use ambiguity want us to catch it, and so they usually signal it in some way, no matter how subtle, and, often, the subtler the better.
Thanks for picking up on my blog posts on ambiguity.
By Wayne Leman, at 09 September, 2005 13:14
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