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In The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul Brevard Childs turns his sharp scholarly eye to the works of the Apostle Paul and makes an unusual argument: the New Testament was canonically shaped, its formation a hermeneutical exercise in which its anonymous apostles and postapostolic editors collected, preserved, and theologically shaped the material in order for the evangelical traditions to serve...

as analogous to the problem of reading Paul’s letters, and suggests that most of what we can know of the situations behind the letters must be inferred from the answer of the one voice. He concludes that there is no way out of this dilemma. However, this reasoning assumes that there is a close continuity always between question and answer. This observation forms the essence of the so-called “mirror image” mode of interpretation.29 Yet it is precisely at this point that caution is called for. There
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