modernistic fashion, claiming that they have something worth saying that other interpretative communities should adopt? The camel keeps sticking its nose back in the tent. The fourth approach emphasizes the classic disciplines first: the necessary languages, detailed familiarity with the relevant texts, wide reading and reflection, a secondary (but important) grasp of the principal secondary literature. It insists that a concentration on tools, hermeneutical debates, and epistemological shifts without
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