Hey,
I always thought synopsis is a sort of collation. For example, you take two texts and organise them in two columns, so that you can compare the contents. If you click on the "prev" button in wikipedia's page history, it shows you a synopsis of two versions of one text.
If you look up "synoptic gospels" in wikipedia and scroll down to the last picture, you see an example of the comparative method called synopsis.
That's why it's called syn-opsis (together-vision) - you view two or more texts together. The greek word "opsis" does not have the meaning of "opinion"! It comes from the verb "horao", which means to look at / to see / to view.
I always thought synopsis is a sort of collation. For example, you take two texts and organise them in two columns, so that you can compare the contents. If you click on the "prev" button in wikipedia's page history, it shows you a synopsis of two versions of one text.
If you look up "synoptic gospels" in wikipedia and scroll down to the last picture, you see an example of the comparative method called synopsis.
That's why it's called syn-opsis (together-vision) - you view two or more texts together. The greek word "opsis" does not have the meaning of "opinion"! It comes from the verb "horao", which means to look at / to see / to view.