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Article: A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics.(Book review)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
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- June 1, 2009
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A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics. By David Jasper. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. xii and 148 pages. Paper. $19.95.
Jasper should be congratulated on this succinct account of biblical "hermeneutics" targeted for the general, non-specialist reader. The book manages to sketch in broad outlines the long sweep of biblical interpretation from the beginnings of the Christian era to the contemporary period in a way that simplifies without being unduly reductionistic. It really is what it claims to be, "A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics."
The book is broken up into seven chapters. The first addresses the complex relationship that exists ...