Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Reinier de Blois" <r.de.blois AT solcon.nl>]

Clay,

Yes, I agree that semantic cohesion is an axiom of the cognitive
approach. There can be semantic cohesion at different levels within a
text though. Even smaller units within a larger text can have a certain
degree of cohesion. But the larger the unit, the better the methodology
will work and the more it will achieve.

Best wishes,

Reinier

> Then you would agree that semantic cohesion is an axiom of 
> the cognitive approach. Setting aside all questions of 
> historicity as irrelevant, looking at the text as a finished 
> literary artifact without any concern for how it arrive in 
> its present form, having cleared away all these needless 
> distractions, there still seem to be significant risks 
> associated with accepting semantic cohesion is an axiom.
> 
> Open The Cantos of Ezra Pound at random somewhere in the 
> middle and select a discourse segment.  Recovering the 
> cognitive framework for this discourse segment my be made 
> *more* difficult if you assume semantic cohesion within the 
> discourse segment as an axiom.
> 
> In the OT wisdom literature we run into similar problems. The 
> book of Ecclesiastes includes discourse units which seem to 
> defy the notion of semantic cohesion. 
> 
> In evaluating the validity of any theoretical framework the 
> first step is to expose weaknesses in the presuppositions. 
> The axiom of semantic cohesion looks like a weakness in RT.
> 
> 
> greetings,
> Clay Bartholomew 
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