Exegesis is patently a theological enterprise, and a theology that is not applied to the lives of God’s people is sterile … The end of exegesis is preaching and teaching in the church. Seminary students and pastors know this instinctively and demand relevance from exegesis and other biblical studies, as well they should.3 Stuart believes that critical techniques of exegesis should be used ‘only insofar as these, too, hold promise of practical theological benefit’. The results [of exegesis] should