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The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this newly revised and expanded edition of the 1993 Christianity Today Critics’ Choice Award winner in theology and biblical studies, Grant Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to move from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons. Osborne contends that...

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
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