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ISBN 10: 1-59752-542-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-59752-542-8
Pages: 94
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 01/25/2006
Division: Wipf and Stock
Category: Biblical studies
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Toward Understanding the Bible
Hermeneutics for Lay People By Perry B. Yoder
“ [T]his work is offered in the hope that it will help those seeking biblical answers for today's problems to find a coherent and consistent way of using the biblical text. . . “Hermeneutics . . . is not so interested in the specific explanation of individual passages, but in a more general way with the object or goal of exegesis. If in exegesis the aim is to discover the meaning of a passage, how will we tell when we have gotten this? In this essay we see that the task of hermeneutics is to teach us how we may tell a valid explanation from an invalid one—what constitutes a correct understanding of a passage." — from the Introduction
Author - Perry B. Yoder
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