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Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jeannine Brown, a seasoned teacher of biblical interpretation, believes that communication is at the heart of what happens when we open the Bible. We are actively engaging God in a conversation that can be life changing. In this guide to the theory and practice of biblical hermeneutics, Brown emphasizes the communicative nature of Scripture, proposing a communication model as an effective...

this is why biblical interpretation needs second-order reflection; it needs hermeneutics.5 What is meaning? Meaning is what we are trying to grasp when we interpret. That is the short answer, and one on which there is general agreement. From there, definitions diverge sharply. Is meaning to be found by attending to authors and their intentions? Or is meaning a property of texts quite apart from their authors? How do readers intersect with meaning? Do they only discover
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