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10 things I wish students would understand about exegesis - #8
#8 Lexicons are limited in their usefulness
διακρίνω in BDAG - click for larger viewLexicons (i.e., dictionaries) are an indispensable tool in exegesis. Even seasoned scholars reach for their LN, LSJ, or BDAG, even if only occasionally. But young ...
Posted on December 5th, 2016
10 things I wish students would understand about exegesis - #9
#9 The Bible is not a Western book
As self-evident as it may seem, those who read the Bible (which always involves interpretation) must constantly remind themselves that
the Bible is not a Western book. . . . the plain fact is that it was written ...
Posted on February 26th, 2015
10 things I wish students would understand about biblical exegesis - #10
This post is the first in a series in which I share 10 things that I wish student exegetes would understand and think about as they are learning the craft. Of course, there are certainly more than 10 things about exegesis I wish students (for that...
Posted on February 25th, 2015
Reference Tracking: An Example
In my previous post about reference, I said that I’d return to the topic to give an example of the importance of reference analysis for biblical interpretation. I focus here on personal reference chains. Eggins (*Introduction to Systemic Functiona...
Posted on February 19th, 2014
Reference Tracking
In SFL-based discourse analysis, *reference* refers to how writers or speakers introduce participants (i.e., people, places, things that act or are "talked about" in a text) and then tracks them as the text unfolds (cf. Eggins, *Introduction to Sy...
Posted on February 15th, 2014