Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys to Biblical Interpretation Author Alton J. Beech the merging of the historical

the merging of the historical

live with joy

A Christy Award finalist from the best-selling author of War Room

we’d all walk around slack-jawed

Because you can’t grow spiritually unless you’re connected relationally

Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys to Biblical Interpretation Author Alton J. Beech the merging of the historicalThe 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,