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Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers (Third Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

World-renowned scholar Michael Gorman presents a straightforward approach to the complex task of biblical exegesis. This third edition of Gorman’s widely used and trusted textbook (over 60,000 copies sold) has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect developments in the academy and the classroom over the past decade. The new edition explains recent developments in theological interpretation...

thee”; “Oh my God! What a beautiful dress!”; and “the god of this age.” Even a simple phrase like “the love of God” is tricky: does it refer to human love for God or God’s love for us? In the case of 1 John, one’s rendering of this phrase is affected by, and will affect, one’s interpretation of the document as a whole. As we will see in more detail in chapter 6, a word or phrase has a range of possible meanings; context narrows that range. Further complicating the situation is the fact that the meaning
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