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Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys to Biblical Interpretation Author Alton J. Beech and herald a brighter wayThe neglected contexts for biblical interpretationContext is king, so the maxim goes. Sensitivity to context? of a verse, chapter, or book? is essential for proper biblical interpretation. Yet the Bible contains another set of key clues that readers rarely consider. In Text and Paratext, Gregory Goswell explores paratext and its implications for biblical interpretation. Paratextual features are the parts of a text that surround the main text itself,