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How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to observe carefully, understand accurately, evaluate fairly, feel appropriately, act rightly, and express faithfully God’s revealed Word, especially as embodied in the Old Testament. • Follow an extensively field-tested twelve-step process to deepen understanding and shape theology (biblical, systematic, and practical). • Engage with...

Notice how the hierarchy of clauses changes where there is asyndeton (2b, 3b), and notice also how a subordinate conjunction such as כִּי (“because”) (4a) signals support and therefore also requires indentation. In this example, the first asyndetic clause in 2a marks a fresh beginning (it’s actually the main clause following a brief temporal introduction that precedes). Then the asyndetic clauses in 2b and 3b each initiate a unit that explains its preceding clause, making each subset of clauses more
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