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For the benefit of readers who may have been influenced by certain eisegeses of MacCorquodale and Meehl (1948), let us here emphasize: Whether or not an interpretation of a test's properties or relations involves questions of construct validity is to be decided by examining the entire body of evidence offered, together with what is asserted about the test in the context of this evidence.
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To be sure, there are those who are more sophisticated in their dogmatic eisegeses, but the offense is not thereby lessened.
Source: wiktionary
This is only one of a plethora of eisegeses by which images of Mary were detected in the OT.
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I include this here in that as well as finding things out of context (eisegesis – things read into a text) I also found errors of accuracy which also contributed to my not trusting other parts of writings of authors for women in leadership.
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Closest matches include biased interpretation, biased reading, critical reading, distortion, error.
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