Synopsis
"" [T]his work is offered in the hope that it will help those seeking biblical answers for today's problems to find a coherent and consistent way of using the biblical text. . . ""Hermeneutics . . . is not so interested in the specific explanation of individual passages, but in a more general way with the object or goal of exegesis. If in exegesis the aim is to discover the meaning of a passage, how will we tell when we have gotten this? In this essay we see that the task of hermeneutics is to teach us how we may tell a valid explanation from an invalid one--what constitutes a correct understanding of a passage. -- from the Introduction
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About the Author
Perry B. Yoder, Ph.D. is Professor of Old Testament at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, where he teaches Hebrew and Old Testament. He received his degree from the University of Pennsylvania and does research in Hebrew language, syntax, rabbinic interpretation, and Biblical perspectives on peace and justice.
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