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Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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10 things I wish students would understand about exegesis - #8

#8 Lexicons are limited in their usefulness διακρίνω in BDAG - click for larger viewLexicons (i.e., dictionaries) are an indispensable tool in exegesis. Even seasoned scholars reach for their LN, LSJ, or BDAG, even if only occasionally. But young ...

10 things I wish students would understand about exegesis - #9

#9 The Bible is not a Western book As self-evident as it may seem, those who read the Bible (which always involves interpretation) must constantly remind themselves that the Bible is not a Western book. . . . the plain fact is that it was written ...

10 things I wish students would understand about biblical exegesis - #10

This post is the first in a series in which I share 10 things that I wish student exegetes would understand and think about as they are learning the craft. Of course, there are certainly more than 10 things about exegesis I wish students (for that...