Barbara Thiering's Usage
In books and scholarly articles, author Barbara Thiering peculiarly applies the term pesher to her elaborate, newly "rediscovered" interpretive technique. According to her, in the four Canonical Gospels, Acts and Revelation, historical facts have been encoded into the text, that is, they were written (and may be revealed) by applying the method, forgotten for twenty centuries.
Her theory has been widely disparaged and dismissed by scholars, and Thiering's thesis has received little support.
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