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How Did Abraham Know About the City of God? – The City Q+R

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The Role of Wordplays in Biblical Interpretation

Most Israelites experienced the Bible by hearing it and then memorizing it. The oral performance of these texts would have been a crucial way that you would have learned what the meaning of the story is. Bob Eel: Awareness of wordplays, puns, and the technical word, paranamasia, is actually a really important tool in biblical interpretation. We got a question from Janna in Virginia.

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