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August 19th, 2008

Reading in the Gaps

Posted At: 11:08am by Rev. William M. Cwirla

In my homiletical workshops, I often take the preachers through an exercise in reading that I learned from Meier Sternberg (“The Poetics of Biblical Narrative”) by way of a graduate course in hermeneutics from Prof. James Voeltz at Concordia-St. Louis. Sternberg uses the David and Bathsheba narrative from 1 Samuel 11 to show how a narrator uses gaps to make subtle rhetorical [ read more ]

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August 19th, 2008

Reading in the Gaps