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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...

Many people over the years have understood the goal of exegesis to be the discovery of the biblical writer’s purpose in writing, what is called the authorial intent. While a laudable goal, this is often difficult to achieve. It can be hard enough to grasp our own intentions in writing something, let alone those of another person from another time and culture.4 Many interpreters today reject authorial intent as the goal of exegesis. A more modest and appropriate primary goal would be to achieve a
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