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Seeking to train readers to “hear all that is being said” within a written text, Peter Leithart advocates a hermeneutical approach that is not rigidly literalistic and looks to Jesus and Paul to learn how to read—not just the Bible, but everything. Thus, Deep Exegesis explores the nature of reading itself, taking clues from Jesus and Paul on the meaning of meaning, the functions of language, and...

meanings of blindness and sight change. He knew when the story began that the man’s literal blindness would be transposed into a different key by the end of the story, and he intended that deeper, or inverted, meaning from the beginning. Typology is deliberate foreshadowing, and the change in meaning from expectation to conclusion is the change from promise to fulfillment. The original text changes meaning when brought into relation to other texts. In this process, the original sense of the statement
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