with no ending in sight but moving ever narrower to the meaning of the text and its significance for today. The sacred author’s intended meaning is the critical starting point but not an end in itself. The task of hermeneutics must begin with exegesis but is not complete until one notes the contextualization of that meaning for today. These are the two aspects entailing what E. D. Hirsch calls “meaning” and “significance” or the original intended meaning for the author and his readers (called “audience