Interpretation is choosing among various alternatives with the aim of assigning meaning to the arrangement of the words on a page. The reader decides to assign meaning to an event that is narrated, judges the importance of this or that occurrence, measuring and characterizing the extent of its significance. All this proceeds within the deliberative mind of the reader (as with the writer previously), standing in a particular place, with a precise line of sight, seeing at one particular angle. The writer of Scripture looked out upon certain events from one angle, and the reader stands in a
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