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Figural Reading and the Old Testament: Theology and Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

Don Collett, an experienced Old Testament teacher, offers an account of Old Testament interpretation that capitalizes on recent research in figural exegesis. Collett examines the tension between figural and literal modes of exegesis as they developed in Christian thought, introduces ongoing debates and discussions concerning figural readings of Scripture, and offers theological readings of...

sense or “the way the words go” in the text.76 Viewed in this light, it is not difficult to grasp why the heresy of paraphrase and the schematic categories just mentioned tend to discourage the close reading of biblical texts,77 and in at least some cases actually pose a real threat to our ability to hear Scripture on its own terms, according to its own canonical indices and presentation. For this reason figural reading stresses the hermeneutical primacy of the canon’s own construal of the literal
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