Toward Understanding the Bible

"" [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

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 01/25/2006
ISBN: 9781532666858
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d