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The /3ible is at the heart of everything a Christian does, whether 1t is evangelising, teaching in the local church or developing a theological response to contemporarv issues. One's view of 5,'cripture is therefore r!f fundamental importance. No t on~y have liberals tried to undermine the authori~v of Scripture through erroneous views of impiration, they now seek to dilute and alter the teaching of.\'cripture through faulry hermeneutics. In fact, the new hermeneutics IS the new battleground for evangelicals seeking to maintain biblical authori~v In this erudite article Rev. Dr. Yoilah Yilpet examines various approaches ro the hermeneutical problem of interpreting an ancient text. The Bible. like all ancient documents, was written in a d![ferent culture and under d(fferent historical circumstances from anything we know today. How can we who live in the 2151 centurv ever know the intention of the author who wrote in the distant pas(? In fact. do we need to know his intention? Abandoning the de.,pair of liberal theologians. Yilpet demonstrates that todav one can and should seek to interpret the biblical text by deternuning the author's intention. Anything less will result in total subjectivi~v and loss of the Christian gospel taught by the Christian church for the past two thousand vears. Yoilah K. Yilpet is presently a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies in the University of Jos, Nigeria, and also serves as a priest in the