How to pronounce“eisegesis”in English
It's come to mean historical critical interpretation of the text because this is what's really in the text.
What is eisegesis is just some modern pious person picking up the Bible and seeing anything they want to see in it.
It's "reading into" because this means "out of" and this Greek word means "into." So eisegesis, you're taught to avoid that.
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Definitions of “eisegesis”
An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that is not there.
“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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