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In All the Scriptures: The Three Contexts of Biblical Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

No one reads the Bible without some interpretive principles, or hermeneutics, in place. The question every student of Scripture needs to ask, then, is this: Are your interpretive principles and methods legitimate and ethical? In this accessible introduction to biblical hermeneutics, Nicholas G. Piotrowski presents an approach that explores three layers of context: literary, historical, and...

reading practices and hone your interpretive skills with the confidence that you know what you are doing and why. On the first day of class I love asking my students what they think Ephesians 2:14 means: “For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility.” As they make interpretive comments I list them on the board. Invariably the most common interpretations amount to this: Jesus made peace between us and
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