My mother can take a different text and preach the same sermon each Sunday. Perhaps there is a bit of truth in both. No text is ever exhausted by any one sermon. And every text finally points to the saving love of God for everyone in God's beloved world. What I would like to do is to offer what I see as the interpretive or hermeneutical contexts generally of biblical writers themselves, though of course we cannot fit all these writers, who span a thousand years of Hebrew Christian history, into one mold.
Any biblical unity is enriched by such diversity.
First, a cosmic or world-embracing context . Biblical writers embrace the realities of their worlds and their situations where they and their communities find themselves. Further, I find it instructive that the way in which the biblical writings are put together in our Bible places them in the context of creation in Genesis at the beginnning and of new creation in Revelation at the end. Thus the Bible as a whole has this cosmic or world-embracing context. We bring the glory and the tragedy of life in our world.