Word Studies & Root Fallacies

[Greektim]

How many here have read Carson's Exegetical Fallacies? It is one of the most important books on exegesis. It is short and very helpful. His section on Word studies and the root fallacy should be read and re-read by all. Give it a shot, Van. It is pretty cheap.

He discusses specifically John 21.

Sam Storms summarizes (or quotes) Carson here:

The root fallacy

This fallacy is based on the assumption that a word derives it meaning from the shape or components of which it is made. I.e., the mistake is in thinking that meaning is determined by etymology. [The exegetical dictionary by Kittel is often guilty of this mistake.]

Examples:

a. Agapao and Phileo - observe that agapao and its related noun agape are used in 2 Sam. 13:15 (LXX) to describe Amnon's incestuous rape of his half-sister Tamar. See also 2 Tim. 4:10 (agapao); and compare John 3:35 (agapao) with John 5:20 (phileo). See also the famous exchange between Jesus and Peter in John 21:15-17. None of this is to suggest that there isn't a special quality to God's love for us. Certainly his love is sacrificial and divine, etc. But this is not because of some intrinsic meaning in the verb agapao or the noun agape.

 

[Yeshua1]

How many here have read Carson's Exegetical Fallacies? It is one of the most important books on exegesis. It is short and very helpful. His section on Word studies and the root fallacy should be read and re-read by all. Give it a shot, Van. It is pretty cheap.

He discusses specifically John 21.

Sam Storms summarizes (or quotes) Carson here:

Think sometimes we get so into trying to sort out all the nuances and intended meanings, the actual intended/meant meaning elude us!

That book should be required reading by all serious students of the Bible...

 

[Van]

I have already addressed the fallacies put forward in "Exegetical Fallacies."
Why not address those, rather than repeating the same copy and paste arguments over and over.