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Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to Walter Kaiser, a gap exists in the academic preparation of ministers. It is the gap between the study of the biblical text (most frequently in the original languages) and the actual delivery of messages to God’s people. Very few centers of biblical and homiletical training have ever taken the time or effort to show the student how one moves from analyzing the text to constructing a...

Chapter 3 Contextual Analysis Where must the exegete begin? Shall he begin with the most intricate and smallest components such as phonemes, morphemes, words, and then gradually work up to phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, sections, and books? Or is the reverse order to be followed? Good exegetical procedure dictates that the details be viewed in light of the total context. Unless the exegete knows where the thought of the text begins and how that pattern develops, all the intricate details
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