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All Roads Lead to the Text: Eight Methods of Inquiry into the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Interpreting the Bible can be frustratingly difficult for the average person. In All Roads Lead to the Text Dean Deppe offers a user-friendly introduction to the “tools of the trade” as he trains readers in eight exegetical methods or paths of inquiry that expert biblical scholars use to interpret Scripture: • Literary study of genre and style • Detailed grammatical study of words,...

Just as the human eye cannot see “everything that’s out there,” so our exegetical eye has not always been trained to perceive indications of when a passage begins and ends, the particular genre of a section of Scripture, or literary devices that subtly offer the meaning of the text. Through a series of biblical examples in this chapter the reader will develop literary skills in discerning clues to the delimitation of a pericope,
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