3.How the biblical writers tie passages together for interpretation should guide our own interpretation of the Bible. In academic jargon, this is referred to as intertextuality. It’s important for understanding what a biblical writer was thinking and doing. It is how ideas are threaded through the canon. Most of our exegesis involves breaking up passages and verses into their constituent parts, whereas the biblical writers were creating connections between texts. Since the Bible is, unavoidably, something of an artifact to us, we have to pay careful attention to the parts. But too often we
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