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| | Hermeneutics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hermeneutics in the Middle Ages witnessed the proliferation of non-literal interpretations of the Bible. | | | The rationalist Enlightenment led hermeneuts, especially Protestant exegetes, to view Scriptural texts as secular Classical texts were viewed. | | | It may be described as the theory of the interpretation and understanding of a text on the basis of the text itself. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics
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| | Issues in Hermeneutics |
| | If modern theories of hermeneutics are to be used in the study of Scripture, Scripture is effectively taken out of the hands of God's people as a book incapable of being understood except by those who are adept at applying, e.g., literary-historical criticism to biblical interpretation. | | | Hermeneutics has nothing new to say, no new thing to communicate, no new insights to give information to a man who has been a serious student of holy Scripture. | | | It is true that we teach Hermeneutics in Seminary as a required course for prospective ministers of the gospel. |
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http://www.prca.org/articles/issues_in_hermeneutics.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hermeneutics |
| | Biblical hermeneutics belongs to this second class, not because the universal rules of exegesis are inapplicable to the Sacred Books, but because the sacred character of the Bible demands additional rules of interpretation, which are not applicable to profane writings. | | | We may infer from the sayings of the Fathers that tradition and the analogy of faith were the sovereign laws of the early Christian interpreters. | | | 1429) produced his hermeneutic treatise entitled "Propositiones de sensu litterali Scripturae Sacrae", in which he considers the various kinds of Scriptural sense, and expresses his preference for the literal sense to be determined according to the teaching of tradition and the pronouncements of the Church. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07271a.htm
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| | Introduction to Hermeneutics by F.P.A. Demeterio III |
| | Whereas the catholic church re-asserted, during 1546 the Council of Trent, its age-old position that it is its own authority which is the ultimate norm of interpreting the Holy Bible, the protestants insisted on the principles of perspicuity-the need for a keenness of the interpreter's discernment-and self sufficiency of the sacred scriptures. | | | Hence, unlike the romanticist and the phenomenological hermeneutics, dialectical hermeneutics is not interested in capturing a single and unified meaning, but instead in an existential meaning, the meaning of the here and now. | | | Second, like dialectical hermeneutics, post-structural hermeneutics is not interested in capturing a single and unified meaning, but instead in an existential meaning, the meaning of the here and now. |
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http://www.geocities.com/philodept/diwatao/introduction_to_hermeneutics.htm
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| | What is Hermeneutics |
| | Hermeneutics acknowledges that the meaning of a religious text is uniquely disclosed within the horizon of a particular faith; however, hermeneutics is equally interested in reading religious texts within the horizon of un-belief. | | | In the hermeneutic universe, no voice is excluded from the conversation because of a faith commitment or a lack thereof. | | | What is said in a particular language is said in a distinct form of life, a historical context of meaning. |
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/iih/AboutHermeneutics.htm
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| | Modern Hermeneutics: Legitimate Contrasted with Illegitimate |
| | Hermeneutics is that branch of Biblical studies which some of its practitioners style "the science of interpretation." Its pretense to be science has won it an undue measure of influence in the church, and this influence has not been helpful. | | | Elliott E. Johnson says, "Hermeneutics is frequently defined as the science of textual interpretation of the Bible" (9). | | | Reply: While no hermeneutical scholar would purge all larger meanings from the Bible (for example, it is obvious from the context that the beasts in Dan. |
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http://www.themoorings.org/doctrine/issues/hermeneutics/intent.html
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| | Biblical hermeneutics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Biblical Hermeneutics, part of the broader hermeneutical question, relates to the problem of how one is to understand Holy Scripture. | | | Patristics - The Holy Fathers are of supreme authority whenever they all interpret in one and the same manner any text of the Bible, as pertaining to the doctrine of faith or morals; for their unanimity clearly evinces that such interpretation has come down from the Apostles as a matter of Catholic faith. | | | Catholic interpretation - Since the Church is the official custodian and interpreter of the Bible, her teaching concerning the Sacred Scriptures and their genuine sense must be the supreme guide of the commentator. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics
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| | Nick Szabo -- Hermeneutics |
| | Hermeneutics is usually applied to areas where tradition is considered important in people's lives -- religious texts, legal precedents, and so on. | | | This view of tradition unifies evolutionary epistimology and hermeneutics, and suggests a broader range of analysis for the study of religion, law, and other institutions based on tradition. | | | Hermeneutics[5] derives from the Greek hermeneutika, "message analysis", or "things for interpreting": the interpretation of tradition, the messages we receive from the past. |
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http://szabo.best.vwh.net/hermeneutics.html
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| | Hermeneutics |
| | The approach that will be used is based on the personal belief of the author that the Scriptures are totally and completely inspired by God and that He communicates to His people that which He desires them to know. | | | The primary need of hermeneutics is to determine the meaning of the Word of God. | | | This Bible study course is designed to acquaint the serious student of the Word of God with equip-ment that will help in the interpretation of the Scriptures. |
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http://www.realtime.net/~wdoud/topics/hermeneutics.html
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| | Hermeneutics - Interpretation |
| | This was recognized in Article III of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics, which says, ‘We affirm that the Person and work of Jesus Christ are the central focus of the entire Bible.’ We have already considered some of the ramifications of Jesus’ post-resurrection claims that all the Scriptures are about him. | | | Hermeneutics, Exegesis, and the Rule of Faith by William DiPuccio | | | “By referring to the gospel as the hermeneutical key I mean that proper interpretation of any part of the Bible requires us to relate it to the person and work of Jesus. |
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http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/Hermeneutics.html
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| | Explaining Hermeneutics: |
| | It desires to clarify the meaning of the term hermeneutics by indicating that it includes not only perception of the declared meaning of a text but also an understanding of the implications that text has for one's life. | | | It is not only the science that leads forth the meaning of a passage but also that which enables one (by the Holy Spirit) to understand the spiritual implica-tions the truth(s) of this passage has for Christian living. | | | This article declares that a proper hermeneutics avoids contradictions, since God never affirms as true two propositions, one of which is logically the opposite of the other. |
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http://www.kulikovskyonline.net/hermeneutics/csbh.htm
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| | Hermeneutics |
| | However, as the church began to grow, heresies came into the church, and to protect the church some of the church fathers had to begin to put together more exacting guidelines for Bible interpretation, or Hermeneutics. | | | You probably don't view this kind of occurrence as being a rule of interpretation, but in practice it is a rule that you and I use every day. | | | The early church was battling some key issues. |
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http://www.endtimes.org/hermeneutics.html
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| | HERMENEUTICS: These are the rules and methods used to interpret the Scriptures. | | | EXEGESIS: Exegesis is using the principles of hermeneutics while seeking the meaning of the scriptures. | | | The term hermeneutics first appeared in a book written in the 17th century. |
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http://www.open.org/mrdsnts/d00500.htm
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| | Interpretation of the Bible - Theopedia |
| | A fundamental belief in hermeneutics is that there is one interpretation. | | | It inevitably involves exegesis, which is the process of examining the actual biblical text as it came from the hand of its writer to discover how he communicated God's truth. | | | This article specifically focuses on hermeneutics as it relates to interpreting the Bible. |
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http://www.theopedia.com/Hermeneutics
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| | So hermeneutics was developed as the way to interpret the Bible. | | | It was not meant to settle all the arguments or to produce only one interpretation; rather, it was developed to prevent people from saying that the Bible said this or that based only upon personal whims or needs. | | | So, coming from Hermes’ name, the original use of the word hermeneut was for someone who interpreted messages. |
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http://www.svcc.edu/academics/classes/murray/hum210/hermwho.htm
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| | Hermeneutics |
| | Klooster, Fred H. ''The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Hermeneutic Process: The Relationship of the Spirit's Illumination to Biblical Interpretation.'' In Hermeneutics, Inerrancy, and the Bible, ed. | | | Post-modern Use of the Bible: The Emergence of Reader-Oriented Criticism. | | | The Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. |
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http://library.sebts.edu/smadden/B1800/notes009.htm
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| | Richard E. Palmer: Hermeneutics and the Disciplines |
| | hermeneutics fragments.) Following the universalism of Kant, one might say, he looked for "the universal conditions" of all understanding in language. | | | And even the universality of hermeneutics is a major point of contention in the debate with Jürgen Habermas. | | | Traditions of interpretation of rules for how to interpret literary, legal, and religious texts have come down from antiquity, and these furnish the subject matter of hermeneutics broadly defined as related to the interpretation of texts. |
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http://www.mac.edu/faculty/richardpalmer/relevance.html
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| | Hermeneutics |
| | The dependability of the New Testament is confirmed by the availability of a remarkable volume of manuscripts which were written very near the time of the original events. | | | As Psalm 19:1 explains, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." Paul, in Romans 1:20 says, "...since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." | | | Once we appreciate what God has done to communicate with us, we may begin to apply the principals of interpretation, or hermeneutics, to the text. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/hermen.html
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| | Biblical Hermeneutics -- Milton S. Terry |
| | If Special Hermeneutics serves any useful end, it must cultivate the habit of searching for what the Scripture has to say for itself, not of imposing upon its language the burden of whatever it is able to bear. | | | Old and New Testament Hermeneutics should not be separated | | | Statement and defence of Scripture doctrine must accord with correct hermeneutics |
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http://www.audiowebman.org/bbc/books/bh/BH_index.htm
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| | Times & Seasons » Hermeneutics |
| | I have come to my methods for approaching scripture through my experience receiving and recording spiritual experiences and those of foremothers and fathers, reflecting on them, weighing and sifting them, interpreting their meanings, revisiting, remembering and reinterpreting. | | | I have always felt as you describe that the Bible is not a science text. | | | Agree with him or not, his recent reading of Noah as an allegory was wildly interesting and takes us beyond the tired old, “The Flood was universal,& Flood was not universal&; argument. |
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http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=2904
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| | Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms used in Theology |
| | for example, one form of hermeneutics might be strict sola scriptura (scripture interpreting scripture), while another might be Historical, or by using secular history to interpret. | | | In Christianity, hermenutics means the science or art of the structured biblical exegesis of scripture, and usually denotes certain principles or rules by which sound interpretation is measured. | | | Hermeneutics is from the Greek [hermeneutikos], which is derived from the name of the Greek god Hermes (the Roman god mercury also stems from hermes), who was said to be the interpreter and messenger of the gods. |
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http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/glossary.html
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| | Who Needs Hermeneutics? |
| | This is what we want to do with scripture. | | | It is an effort to seek out guidelines that we can agree on as we try and interpret the Bible. | | | And it is equally important that we learn to interpret it correctly, that we "rightly divide the word of truth" and teach things which become "sound doctrine." And it is for this reason that a study on how we are to interpret scripture (hermeneutics) is so important. |
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http://www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/hermeneutics.htm
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| | Biblical Hermeneutics: online resources |
| | Anyway, since hermeneutics in the broader sense in which I use it here frequently brings up the problem of methods of interpretation, as well as the classic problem of the authority of Scripture, these will also be taken into account on this site. | | | (Includes 25 subject-lists of links totalling 300+ texts and websites; plus: special subject page on Bible, hermeneutics, and sexuality) | | | This website offers links to online resources for the study of Biblical hermeneutics: that is, texts and websites which, in my humble opinion, may be useful for serious biblical-hermeneutical reflection. |
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http://www.biblicalhermeneutics.net
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| | New Testament Gateway: Hermeneutics |
| | Gosnell L. Yorke, “Biblical hermeneutics: an Afrocentric perspective”, Religion and Theology 2/2 (1995), pp. | | | By Holger Szesnat: very useful, massive bibliographical style listing of internet texts on the topic of Biblical Hermeneutics. | | | Steve Moyise, “Concluding Hermeneutical Observations”, Chapter 10 in Steve Moyise, The Old Testament in the New (London and New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. |
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| | Gadamer\gng2 |
| | Hermeneutics, in its original application, had as its task the explication of the truth claims of the Bible. | | | Another aspect of this methodological turn in hermeneutics was the human science’s inability to see their own historical situatedness. | | | Gadamer describes this situatedness as the overriding influence which any tradition has on those that belong to it. |
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http://www.svcc.edu/academics/classes/gadamer/gng2.htm
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| | 20th WCP: Ecological Hermeneutics |
| | From this definition it is easy to see ecological hermeneutics has similarities with Aldo Leopold's land ethic; actions are right when they "preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community," and wrong otherwise. | | | But at the same time I need to be sensitive to the beliefs of other nontechnological traditions, such as Native Americans, for instance. | | | Ecological hermeneutics provides a decision procedure for distinguishing uses of technology which are justifiable in their degree of harmony with the lifeworld with those that are not. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Envi/EnviKell.htm
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| | Here We Stand: Hermeneutics |
| | I was today struck by the interesting parallel between typical LCMS hermeneutics, Reformed sacramentology, and much of Roman Catholic theology. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | The process of interpretation goes something like this: |
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http://metalutheran.blogspot.com/2005/05/hermeneutics.html
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| | cosmic hermeneutics |
| | But I shall not take the space to do that. | | | But if cosmic hermeneutics is possible if physicalism is true, the sceptical argument is reinstated. | | | For he has defended a “pragmatic picture” of belief, with propositions taken to be sets of possible worlds, which is, as he admits, congenial to the idea that knowledge is closed under necessary consequence (1984, 76). |
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http://web.mit.edu/abyrne/www/CosmicHermeneutics.html
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| | Hermeneutics -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources |
| | Philosophical and interdisciplinary Value Inquiry with the following focal points: 1) Classical and contemporary theories of values, 2)Values in Sex-Gender Context, 3) Hermeneutics of Religion and Culture, 4) Present process of transformation: Identity, Democracy, Globalization and Justice, 5) Values and Praxis. | | | Dealing extensively with Gadamer's later writings, Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other shows neglected and widely misunderstood dimensions of Gadamer's hermeneutics: historicity, finitude, truth, the importance of the other, and the eminence of the poetic text... | | | Click here to learn more about this book |
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http://www.erraticimpact.com/~20thcentury/html/hermeneutics.htm
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| | Bibliology - the Theology of the Bible |
| | Humility Science Hermeneutics Study Tools Pagan Ideas Beliefs Standards Links Theology Vision Prophecy | | | rule of hermeneutics – define the key words and theological concepts. | | | Move to the next key word, concept, etc. in the text and start over with these steps and rules. |
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http://bibliology.org/hermeneutics.htm
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| | References on Hermeneutics |
| | Bibliographies to the literature on hermeneutics appear in some of the books, mentioned above. | | | This volume includes essays from the debate between Gadamer, who is author of the book Truth and Method (which is considered to be a classic and a new translation of which is available [New York: Continuum, 1993]) and Habermas, who is a major proponent of the school of thought known as critical theory. | | | A rather detailed view of the historical development of hermeneutics is Kurt Mueller-Vollmer’s introduction, “Language, Mind, and Artifact: An Outline of Hermeneutic Theory Since the Enlightenment,&; to the book, The Hermeneutics Reader (New York: Continuum Publishing, 1988), which he also edited. |
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http://www.people.vcu.edu/~aslee/herm.htm
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| | Surber, Hermeneutics |
| | Thus, hermeneutics must attend to both the "saying" and the "unsaid". | | | For Gadamer, "the interpretive activity of understanding is the condition for the emergence of any truth, prior to and independent of any subsequently adopted method". | | | Heidegger emphasized that meanings were not objects that could be exchanged, but were part of "temporality". |
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| | Gadamer and Hermeneutics |
| | Central to this volume are debates about the virtues of Gadamerian hermeneutics in contrast to aspects of the work of Heidegger, Ricoeur, Barthes, Derrida, and Habermas. | | | This fourth volume of the Continental Philosophy series opens with and account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. | | | This volume looks at developments in Gadamerian hermeneutics in the thirty years since the publications of the philosopher's magnum opus. |
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http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/hsilverman/gadamer.htm
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| | Hermeneutics |
| | Analyzing New Testament Book Structure: The "How To" | | | Hermeneutics: The Science and Art of Biblical Interpretation |
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| | AllRefer.com - hermeneutics (Philosophy, Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia |
| | During the Reformation hermeneutics came into being as a special discipline concerned with biblical criticism. | | | The philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey expanded the discipline still further by conceiving of all of the human and social sciences as hermeneutical enterprises and trying to construct a method uniquely for them, instead of borrowing one from the natural sciences. | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Philosophy, Terms And Concepts > hermeneutics |
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| | Technorati Tag: Hermeneutics |
| | Posts tagged Hermeneutics per day for the last 30 days. | | | Research Hermeneutics at Questia Research and discover over 1,000,000 books, journals and articles covering over 6,000 research topics, continuously updated - a complete academic library. | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged Hermeneutics. |
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| | Philosophical Hermeneutics |
| | RHETORICAL HERMENEUTICS asks whether rhetorical theory can function as a general hermeneutic, a master key to texts. | | | Can a rhetorical hermeneutic, or way of reading texts as rhetoric, be anchored in coherent and enabling theory? | | | In the lead essay in this volume, "The Idea of Rhetoric in the Rhetoric of Science," Dilip Gaonkar raises this fundamental issue. |
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| | An Introduction to Classical Evangelical Hermeneutics : A Guide to the History and Practice of Biblical Interpretation |
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