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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...

1. a preamble telling of God’s grant to Noah and his sons (Gen. 9:1a); 2. God’s provisions for/promises to them (vv. 1b–3, 7); 3. prescribed stipulations (vv. 4–6); 4. covenant enactment (vv. 8–11a) together with a divine oath (v. 11b); and 5. the accompanying sign of the rainbow (vv. 12–17). Although the grant was made to Noah and his sons, the wide-ranging and perpetual provisions in the covenant indicate that Noah and his sons were the mere representatives of a mankind that was to recognize, appreciate,
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