
The Four Senses of Scripture
Patrick Schreiner · Baker Academic
A recovery of the church's ancient fourfold reading — literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical — and why the quadriga still repays the patient reader.
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Patrick Schreiner · Baker Academic
A recovery of the church's ancient fourfold reading — literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical — and why the quadriga still repays the patient reader.

D. A. Carson & Andrew David Naselli · Baker Academic
Carson's classic guide to the errors that trip up interpreters, newly revised with Andrew Naselli — humbling, essential reading for anyone who handles the text.

Brandon Crowe · Baker Academic
Far from a canonical outlier, James refracts the Old Testament through Jesus' teaching to press believers toward maturity — Brandon Crowe makes the case.
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