critically allowing different contemporary contexts to inform the interpretation positively and to influence the type of questions put to the text in the process of interpretation. Theologians and biblical scholars are increasingly aware that all theological and biblical interpretations are culturally, historically, and socially conditioned (Schreiter: 3–4; Jeffre: 47). It is now acknowledged that the current exegetical methodologies have been developed from perspectives that are specifically Western;
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