"THE PROCESS OF THE TEXT"
scholars were keen on preserving the integrity of the literal sense (“not different
senses”) and they are also able to avoid the trap of historicists or intentional¬
ists who wanted to fix the meaning in an external, historical or biographical
reality. What is common in their theories is that meaning is not conceived as
something static or fixed entity but rather as a continuous, unfolding process,
“unfolding like a plant out of a seed”. That is the reason we find that Tyndale’s
and Frith’s ideas of “the process of the text” strikingly modern.