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Invitation to Biblical Interpretation: Exploring the Hermeneutical Triad of History, Literature, and Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bible scholars Andreas Köstenberger and Richard Patterson present the “hermeneutical triad” method—an interpretive approach to the Bible that gives due consideration to the historical setting, literary context, and theological message of a given passage. Working through the major genres of Scripture and showing how their method applies to each one, Köstenberger and Patterson provide interpretive...

that of balance—proper interpretation will attend to both levels in a way that addresses and incorporates the full testimony of the canonical Old Testament. There are a variety of ways of doing this. Attending to theological themes is one way, and space will be given to this in this chapter, particularly to the vital themes of law, exodus, covenant, and other coordinating themes. Another way of dealing with both levels is to attend to the distinctive language that appears in and across bodies of
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