Download or read book What Does this Mean? written by James W. Voelz and published by Concordia Scholarship Today. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does this mean? is a seminary-level introduction to hermeneutics, drawing especially on the Lutheran theological tradtion to define and shape the tasks of interpretation. In parts 1 and 2, Voelz describes the major issues and methods of textual criticism, semantics, and pragmatics. In the final section, he offers insights for reading Scripture from a confessional position.