Striking home addresses two questions which are the focus of vigorous contemporary debate: How do we ascertain the meaning of the New Testament writings? How can we use these writings responsibly in our proclamation? While maintaining that the first task of the interpreter is to ascertain the meaning which the original author was seeking to communicate to the readers in view, Professor Watson argues that the meaning of any text, still more, the biblical text, is too rich to be defined in terms of authorial intention alone. In the second part of the book he sets out to show that by focusing exegesis more deliberately on the situation of the original readers and penetrating below the surface of the original text, we will again and again find a message which resonates with our own experience.