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Introduction to Biblical Interpretation, now in its third edition, is a bestselling hermeneutics textbook that sets forth concise, logical, and practical guidelines for discovering the truth in God’s Word. With updates and revisions throughout that keep pace with current scholarship, this book offers students the best and most up-to-date information needed to interpret Scripture. Used in college...

act theory, we need to grasp what the author is doing in the communicative act (illocution): informing, exhorting, encouraging, telling a story, establishing basic beliefs or worldview, threatening, connecting, soliciting, celebrating, etc. In other words, what is the author’s tactic in the communicative act; what is he or she seeking to accomplish? Finally, what does the author hope will be the effects or outcomes for the readers (perlocution)? Understanding how poetry works poses additional and
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