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Interpretation

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15 April 202614 April 2026 Stephen Kneale

On understanding words as they are employed

24 July 202523 July 2025 Stephen Kneale

On interpretive maximalism and minimalism

11 July 202510 July 2025 Stephen Kneale

What to make of an odd and tricky passage in 2 Kings 13

01 May 202530 April 2025 Stephen Kneale

When you can’t see the wood for the trees: further reflections on 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

24 April 202524 April 2025 Stephen Kneale

Because of the angels… whatever that means

08 November 202409 November 2024 Stephen Kneale

A comforting verse for unimpressive, not so great preachers

31 October 202431 October 2024 Stephen Kneale

Three ways we might find our biases driving our biblical interpretation

29 October 202428 October 2024 Stephen Kneale

It’s okay not to know

18 July 202417 July 2024 Stephen Kneale

The church is meant to be a family; we’re just often poor at it

06 May 202405 May 2024 Stephen Kneale

Are there contradictions in the gospels?

16 April 202415 April 2024 Stephen Kneale

Make the main thing the main thing

13 March 202412 March 2024 Stephen Kneale

Is that descriptive or prescriptive? Ackshually, it’s both

24 January 202424 January 2024 Stephen Kneale

How do we understand apparent chronological discrepancies in the gospels?

12 January 202411 January 2024 Stephen Kneale

Don’t gloss over the little historical details

30 November 202329 November 2023 Stephen Kneale

It’s about what’s in the text

24 November 202323 November 2023 Stephen Kneale

Bible people don’t want to say more or less than the Bible does

13 November 202312 November 2023 Stephen Kneale

The goal is authorial intent

27 October 202327 October 2023 Stephen Kneale

Don’t let the text become the slave of your framework

21 April 202320 April 2023 Stephen Kneale

Understanding the wider purpose of the biblical writers

03 April 202302 April 2023 Stephen Kneale

Exegete the passage in front of you, don’t flatten it by exegeting other things

14 March 202313 March 2023 Stephen Kneale

Asking where you get that from the text is not biblicism

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