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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,...

Discerning readers of the text are on the alert to spot literary devices like repetition as an indicator of pericope delimiters. For instance, in Matt 1:18–2:23 one discovers the repetition of five OT texts as fulfilled prophecies (Matt 1:23; 2:6, 15, 18, 23) indicating five short paragraphs that call attention to Jesus as the fulfillment of prophecy. This section is preceded by a genealogy of Jesus where the Greek verb ἐγέννησεν (“begot,
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