If exegesis is your goal, the things you list are good starts, although I
would warn against a too great dependance on word studies and the Kittel
approach. There is a book that since I'm in a hurry for a meeting I won't
look up, but James Barr is the author, done in 1964 I think, something
along the lines Art of Biblical Language...in which he argues that the
Kittel approach of focusing on semantics as a static field is incorrect,
and that the semantic field is determined by usage. I certainly do not go
as far as Barr, but there is wisdom in the argument: Meaning is not
static, and nuance does come from immediate context.
Larry Swain
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