All Roads Lead to the Text

<DIV>In <I>All Roads Lead to the Text</I> Dean Deppe offers a user-friendly guide to biblical exegesis and interpretation. Far from a dry theoretical handbook this book's example-based approach enlivens the exegetical task and offers immediate payoff by constantly applying concepts to specific texts. Deppe focuses on eight methods that biblical scholars use from analyzing literary grammatical and structural elements to investigating historical and cultural backgrounds to exploring the history of interpretation. Deppe explains each approach using several concrete examples from both Old and New Testament texts and every chapter concludes with practical text-based questions for study and discussion.</DIV>