How then shall we—biblical scholars, theologians, clergy, and laypeople—read? The answer involves more than following a step-by-step how-to manual. Exegetical procedures are helpful, but they can also give readers the impression that they are in control of the process. Not so. The most important qualification for biblical interpretation, and the Christian reader’s primary vocation, is to be “canonically aware and redemptively responsible”43—alert to the purpose of Scripture as a whole and prepared to answer the divine summons to follow the words where they lead. More than knowing exegetical
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