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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,...

and content in a passage as well as analyzing the reader’s presuppositions in interpreting the text; 8. Employing the spiritual disciplines of a practicing faith perspective, personalizing the text, praying Scripture, picturing concepts through meditation, listening prophetically, paradigm building through mirroring, and imaginative application. Some students of the text prefer to begin with the smallest unit and work to the largest. First they study words, then phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs,
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