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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...

Exegesis, then, is investigation, conversation, and art—in context. As conversation and art that takes place in particular contexts, and in collaboration with interpreters in different contexts (past and present), exegesis requires an openness to others and to the text that method alone cannot provide. However, without a method, exegesis is no longer an investigation. Thus the principal focus of this book is on developing an exegetical method.
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