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What English Readers Need to Know about Mistakes in Gadamer’s Truth and Method

H.-G. Gadamer’s Truth and Method is a key text on hermeneutical theory. The newest English edition is a wonderful resource, but it’s not without problems.

April 20, 2026 路 8 min 路 J. David Stark

Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions in Paperback

David Stark, “Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions” The kind folks at Bloomsbury (the parent company of the T&T Clark imprint) have recently mentioned that a paperback release is forthcoming for my聽Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions: The Hermeneutical Worlds of the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts and the Letter to the Romans. Slated for this June, the paperback, at a $29.95 list price, will be a fiscally welcome complement to the current hardback ($120.00) and PDF ($27.99) formats. The paperback is already available for pre-order on Amazon,聽currently at just under the list price.

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February 10, 2015 路 1 min 路 J. David Stark

Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions

Stark, Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions The latest Bloomsbury Highlights聽notes the newly available volume 16 in the T&T Clark Jewish and Christian Texts Series. The volume is a revision of my 2011 dissertation at Southeastern Seminary and primarily explores paradigmatic, or presuppositional, aspects of the hermeneutics at play in Romans and some of the Qumran sectarian texts.

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February 14, 2014 路 1 min 路 J. David Stark