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The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

A fusion of biblical hermeneutics and homiletics, this thorough and well-researched book offers a holistic contemporary approach to the interpretation and preaching of biblical texts, using scholarly tools and focusing on literary features. Greidanus develops hermeneutical and homiletical principles and then applies them to four specific genres: Hebrew narratives, prophetic literature, the...

New Testament traditions. “Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel.… For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve” (1 Cor 15:1–5, my emphasis). But whether the apostles proclaimed the fulfillment of the Old Testament Scriptures or delivered
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