biblical interpretation … challenges other modes of biblical reading to become more comprehensive and sophisticated.”8 Ultimately, this interpretative process is aimed at the transformation of both church and society for the sake of the flourishing of all persons. While this view of hermeneutics may stretch your understanding and even unsettle you a bit, each new generation of interpreters has challenged, stretched, and unsettled the last one across the centuries. Interpretation is a never-ending
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