Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys to Biblical Interpretation Young Reader As Christians join together for

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and only through his complete work are we set free

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the announcement of the kingdom

Sacred Belonging helps us see how Scripture directs us to live a liberated faith

Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys to Biblical Interpretation Young Reader As Christians join together forThe neglected contexts for biblical interpretation\Context 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,