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Anthony Thiselton here brings together his encyclopedic knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide a splendid interdisciplinary textbook. After a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics, Thiselton moves into modern times with extensive analysis of scholarship from the mid-twentieth century, including liberation and feminist theologies,...

We turn next to the interpretation of the parables of Jesus because the parables offer an excellent workshop of examples in which few hermeneutical approaches can be called “wrong,” and many are fruitful. The historical or literal approach places the parables in a historical situation, which illuminates them, but some of the parables also invite a very different approach. Some parables verge on allegory in their original form;
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