Talk:Eisegesis

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this article uses words like "pseudoscience" which are inherently judgemental. moreover, it criticizes and deprecates a whole field of study. whether or not the poster agrees with eisegesis is not the point whatsoever. anybody who came looking for dispassionate information about eisegesis would find no useful material here. i don't know anything about this topic -- which is why i'm here! -- but think someone should tell me whether they agree with my assessment. le 07:04, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

As per edit history and my email to le (above) :- I have completely re-written this page, discarding nearly all of what was said before because I felt it was from a certain theological point of view. I'm aware of my personal feelings about eisegesis in relation to Biblical texts. Perhaps, somebody could provide an account of why they think eisegesis is good. This would certainly balance the argument. Oliver Keenan 15:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to users who have further cleaned up my edits, including the NPOV bits. Oliver Keenan 16:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Does the term eisegesis deserve a page of its own? I get the sense that the word is not clearly defined, and is used only as a disparaging term.

From one definition given in this article, it seems that eisegesis is the same thing as what some people would call "finding a personal meaning in the text." But if the meaning is personal, then it isn't meant to be applied generally, and shouldn't be considered on par with exegesis.

On the other hand, the article also says eisegesis is considered "poor exegesis" in biblical scholarship. In that case, can eisegesis even be considered an interpretation method at all?

It just looks like the word eisegesis does not lend itself to a neutral point of view. Aardvark92 20:19, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

After a quick internet survey, I've updated the final section of the page to cover the idea of eisegesis from various religious perspectives. It appears that the word eisegesis is nearly universally used as a criticism of one's opponents. The debate is not so much whether eisegesis is good or bad, as this article previously stated, but what constitutes eisegesis. Aardvark92 14:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

"While exegesis attempts to determine the historical context within which a particular verse exists..." Isn't this rather hermeneutics? At least that is what I got from the Exegesis article. Artur Buchhorn (talk) 20:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)