Interpreting the Gospels and Acts: An Exegetical Handbook (Biblia.com)

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In this final volume of the Handbooks for New Testament Exegesis series, David Turner provides a comprehensive guide for interpreting and conveying the lives of Jesus and his early followers. Key background information such as literary genres, historical setting, and theological themes lay the groundwork for properly reading these five books. This is followed by practical guidance on textual...

and subgenres. Current genre theory emphasizes the social and ideological context of the process or action of writing as well as its end product or form.1 The complexity of genre theory aside, it seems clear that the understanding of a text’s genre is crucial for its interpretation. As E. D. Hirsch put it, “An interpreter’s preliminary generic conception of a text is constitutive of everything that he subsequently understands.”2 One’s understanding of what a text means (exegesis) is to a great degree

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