In this newly revised and expanded edition, Grant Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to move from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons.
Osborne contends that hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context a movement between the horizon of the text and the horizon of the reader that spirals nearer and nearer toward the intended meaning of the text and its significance for today.
Well-established as the standard evangelical work in the field since its first publication in 1991, The Hermeneutical Spiral has been updated to meet the needs of a new generation of students and pastors. Thorough revisions have been made throughout, new chapters have been added on Old Testament law and the use of the Old Testament in the New, and the bibliography has been thoroughly updated.
Market/Audience
Seminary students and professors
Features and Benefits
Comprehensive.
Up to Date.
Includes illustrative charts and diagrams.
Covers recent developments in criticism and other fields relevant to biblical hermeneutics.
Moves from exegesis to theology to sermon preparation.
Original edition won 1993 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award.
Now thoroughly revised throughout with two new chapters covering Old Testament law and the use of the Old Testament in the New.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation:
As of 9-5-08, I have not had time to do any reading in this book. This book is actually one of the text books I will be using for a Masters level course that I am currently enrolled in.
essential reading for the serious student of hermeneutics:
I am enrolled at Moody Graduate Seminary in introductory Hermeneutics (Principals of Biblical Research and Interpretation). This book was listed as "recommended" not mandatory. When I realized that the study guide for the course and the main text book (Duvall & Hays: Grasping God's Word)regularly cited this text, I realized that this book was essential reading for the serious hermeneutics student.
A Shift In Hermeneutics Study:
Hermeneutical Spiral is a fresh approach to hermeneutics with detailed research and scholarship.
Comprehensive and practical.:
This book is aptly subtitled, for comprehensive it is! Osborne goes the length in this book from explaining how to study the Biblical text in its original language to advice on delivery of sermons.
A basic thesis he mentions a number of times throughout the book is that the goal of hermeneutics is not the commentary but the sermon. This textbook is very detailed and yet practical: almost everything he writes is aimed at how to write a relevant sermon for a congregation today.
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