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This valuable volume presents the first widely accessible description of the principles and procedures of narrative criticism written for students and pastors to use in their own exegesis. With great clarity, Powell outlines the principles and procedures that narrative critics follow in exegesis of gospel texts and explains concepts such as point of view, narration, irony, and symbolism. Chapters...

an end rather than as an end in itself. The “end” for historical criticism is a reconstruction of something to which the text attests, such as the life and teaching of Jesus, the interests of the early Christians who preserved traditions concerning him, or the concerns of the evangelists and their communities. The difference between these approaches has been aptly described through the metaphors of a window and a mirror.30 Historical criticism regards the text as a window through which the critic
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