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McFadden and Helm on Tools for Getting to the Meaning of the Text (Re-release)

Help Me Teach The Bible

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What's the Shape of a Text?

Every text has a structure. When we can see the shape of a text, then we can get at what that text is really about. We're looking at plot and rising action and climax in narrative. In an epistle, that would be a type of literature that we label as discourse. Usually he's presenting an argument. He wants them to believe something or hold on to something or change something. It's never a moral lesson. There's always an indicative about God, about Jesus with it.

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