A Beginner’s Guide to New Testament Exegesis: Taking the Fear Out of Critical Method (Biblia.com)

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Let’s face it. Just the word exegesis puts some of us on edge. We are excited about learning to interpret the Bible, but the thought of exegetical method evokes a chill. Some textbooks on exegesis do nothing to overcome these apprehensions. The language is dense. The concepts are hard. And the expectations are way too high. However, the skills that we need to learn are ones that a minister of the...

We have already seen that UBS4 cites only the textual problems having significance for Bible translation. This by itself tips us off to the fact that in pastoral exegesis it will not be necessary to tackle and solve the problems raised by every single variant we find at the bottom of a page in a Greek New Testament. Only those problems that have a bearing on the meaning and interpretation of the text need our attention. But how do we decide which of the many textual problems are important enough

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