Toward Understanding the Bible
| Author | : Perry Yoder |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 95 |
| Release | : 2006-01-25 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781597525428 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1597525421 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (421 Downloads) |
Download or read book Toward Understanding the Bible written by Perry Yoder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ò [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. . . ÒHermeneutics . . . 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
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