Exegesis, Authorial Intention, and Typology

Questions and Answers - Part 5

Speaker: Alastair Roberts
Date: May 18, 2018
Series: Questions and Answers

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Is the task of exegesis limited to discovering the author’s original intention, or can meaning somehow overflow intention? If so, in what way? What guardrails are in place that would enable us to recognize certain readings as off-limits?

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