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PastorAIO:
How specific does an intended message have to be? i.e Can a double entendre be intended? In which case the intention is not one point or the other but the contemplation of the possibility of both points.

On the other hand in communication how accurately does received understanding reflect intention. You say what you mean but do I get what you mean? Or did you mean what I Understood?

These and many other interesting questions can be addressed to the issue of communications.

In the Japanese Zen traditions there is something that is called a Koan. That is a small piece of text that, far from making a particular point, is designed to NOT do so in order to jerk the mind into a higher order of functioning.

Dizang asked Xiushan, “Where do you come from?”
Xiushan said, “From the South.”
Dizang said, “How is Buddhism in the South these days?”
Xiushan said, “There is extensive discussion””
Dizang said, “How can that compare to me here planting the fields and making rice to eat?”
Xiushan said, “What can you do about the world?”
Dizang said, “What do you call the world?”
-- Book of Serenity

Seems i left a question here unanswered

Ubenedictus:
Seems i left a question here unanswered

It is never too late to answer it. That’s if you’re still on nairaland

One of the clearer cases of redaction in the bible can be found when we look at the book of Ezekiel.
Specifically chapter 20:25

25Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, 26and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.

Here we find that there existed laws for human sacrifice in the laws given by yhwh however when we look at the Torah we no longer find those laws. They were later removed.

This is a strong case for redaction in the development of the bible.