Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys to Biblical Interpretation Author Alton J. Beech and hustle culture with the

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Illinois LEE ECLOV is senior pastor of the Village Church of Lincolnshire in the northern suburbs of Chicago where he has served since 1998 and has been shepherding churches as a senior or assistant paster for more than 30 years

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Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys to Biblical Interpretation Author Alton J. Beech and hustle culture with theThe neglected contexts for biblical interpretationContext is king, so the maxim goes. Sensitivity to context? of a verse, chapter, or book? is essential for proper biblical interpretation. Yet the Bible contains another set of key clues that readers rarely consider. In Text and Paratext, Gregory Goswell explores paratext and its implications for biblical interpretation. Paratextual features are the parts of a text that surround the main text itself,