I noticed that someone arrived at my ‘What’s So Hard About Exegesis?’ post last week, and as I thought about the topic and my very wordy post, it occurred to me that a shorter answer to the question might be ‘Students come to exegesis want to know “how” in terms of method, whereas the crucial ‘how’ is a matter of manner — not ‘Step One, Step Two, Step Three’ but ‘In what sort of spirit, what frame of mind, should one undertake exegesis?’.