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Starting New Testament Study provides an introduction to the books of the New Testament, their authors, and their context for those just beginning to study the Bible. It has an emphasis on ‘learning by doing’; alongside the main narrative sweep come text boxes that introduce readers to areas of critical scholarship, maps, timelines and questions and exercises that encourage direct engagement...

A text has a life of its own, independent of its author, and often with a multiplicity of meanings. And what about the reader? Reader-oriented theories recognize that readers bring to the text different worlds of experience and presuppositions. Such interpretative worlds bring out what is latent in the text. The text has no inherent meaning; indeed, some scholars assert that it is the reader who creates textual meaning. A modified version of this approach would be that meaning
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