Final part of Review of Leithart, Deep Exegesis

Peter J Leithart Deep Exegesis: The Mystery of Reading Scripture, Baylor 2009Chapters 5&6: Texts are Music/ Texts are about ChristEek I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, but haven’t had time to finish the review. Sorry for the delay. In chapter 5 Leithart argues that Biblical texts are multi-layered and that “the same words tell several stories at the same time” (142). It may be safer to stay on the surface of a text and not risk putting “words into God’s mouth”, “[b]ut caution is no

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