List the concentric rings of context in a bible passage. (4)
Tell what kinds of things you would investigate when researching internal and external historical setting. (4)
List four ways one can identify the purpose of a book? (4)
List the 10 steps of the exegetical project. (5)
DEFINITIONS:
Context (2):
Inference (2):
Covenant (2):
How does it affect our interpretation? (2)
What are the five major covenants of the Bible? (2)
Presupposition (2):
Contextualization (2):
If we don’t need to interpret the newspaper, why should we need to interpret the Bible? (3)
What three elements are involved in the interpretive process? (3)
TRUE/FALSE
Memorizing individual Bible verses can, in fact, be dangerous in terms of neglecting context.
A Bible book can have several purposes.
The best way to understand the structure of a book is to outline the book.
Chapter and verse divisions were a part of the original Greek text.
Historical setting can be researched through internal and/or external writings.
You can not properly understand the N.T. without understanding the O.T.
Context is the king of interpretation.
Presuppositions are relatively easy to identify and subjugate.
Ancient historians such as Plutarch and Tacitus don't tell us about Bible history and are therefore unimportant for Biblical research.
An Atlas only helps us with the study of geography and therefore is not part of our research of "Historical Setting."
Fee and Stuart say that it is impossible to merely read the Bible without interpreting it.
There may be several interpretations of a passage and many applications of it. But normally there will only be one true meaning.
The most common genre of the Bible is narrative.
Hermeneutical rules are not arbitrary but are gleaned by observing how real-life language actually works.
Part of the difficulty we have in interpreting the Bible is that we are separated from the original writing by time, language, geography, etc.
Some books, such as Mt, Acts, & Rev. have a meticulous structure. While others, such as James and Proverbs don't seem to have much of a formal structure at all.
There really is no single A.I.M. of a passage.
The Bible itself says we should read and understand it. But it never expresses the expectation that each individual will get the same thing out of it.
One of the reasons to interpret the Bible is for a better relationship with God.
