The Slipperiness of Language

Many people see the slipperiness of language, i think that was your term, as something negative. I think we see it is something positive. The vocabulary of biblical hebrew is mine when compared to the vocabulary of english. So therefore many words naturally have homanims because you have a fewer number of words. If you don't have punctuation, then you have no clear way of arbitrating in most cases between such readings. And again, something that we both emphasizes, yet we're not total originalists. We are interested in what the text originally meant, but we don't mean to say that all people of all religious traditions need to abide by what the text initially meant.