who wish to preserve the stringent historicity and a-theological stance that grammatico-historical exegesis has promoted. As we shall see below, however, there are a number of difficulties with many of the planks of this interpretative model. Whereas the emphasis of grammatico-historical exegesis has focused upon what the biblical text originally meant, it has been more recently argued that the exegetical task should, and even must, be expanded to include both what
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