Eisegete

Synonyms for "eisegete"

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Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments edited by Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart (page 255) (Routledge, →ISBN http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0415968887&id=9MD3qFaGYKcC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&ots=WTzI0sbp1m&dq=eisegete&sig=FYhXwSuFYFJfumbj9GFo-WlHF7c And nowhere does that nongivenness appear more clearly, paradoxial as that may be, than in the image of Jesus writing something that we readers cannot read, cannot exegete or eisegete, and therefore cannot deconstruct.

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