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| In front of the text difficulty: |
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| what we bring to the text sometimes changes the meaning; worldview problems! |
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| previous meaning fallacy, grammatical relationships, or unwarranted associative jumps. |
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| Behind the text difficulty: |
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| overemphasis on historical backgrounds. |
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| your understanding of the text as a whole is established by referring to individual parts, and understanding of individual parts is established by referring to reference to the text as a whole (circular reasoning). |
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| spiral from text to context: the reader's understanding spirals nearer and enarer to the text. It is a movement between the horizon of the text and of the reader that spirals nearer and nearer to the meaning of the text and its meaning for today. |
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| hermeneutics approached through history, literature, and theology. |
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| 5 steps of interpretive journey |
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1. What it means to biblical audience
2. What is the difference between them and us?
3. What is the theological principle in the text?
4. how does our theological principle fit with the rest of the Bible?
5. how can we live out these theological principles? |
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| interpreting texts; science and art of biblical interpretation |
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| deriving an interpretation from the text. |
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| what is the relationship between hermeneutics and exegesis? |
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| Hermeneutics is the rule book, exegesis is the game. |
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| the process of misinterpreting a text in such a way that it introduces one's own idea and reads into the text. |
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| act of explaining/expounding, the practice of exegesis and application. |
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| understanding how a text impacts the life (commands, promises, stories, etc.) |
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| focuses on what is behind the text, a portal to historical events and people |
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| focuses on content and form. includes what the author wants us to see or is trying to say--more literary. |
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| reflection on the interests of the christian community |
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| seeks to understand the theology of the author and books of biblical canon. It seeks to investigate scripture as it was originally given and uses a historically grounded worldview to abstract truths from the text. Studies in sections, then in the whole. |
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| gets abstract truths from philosophy and logic. tries to give a coherent doctrine of christian faith that is worded in contemporary idiom. focuses on the systems for the contemporary audience to understand. studies primarily as a whole. |
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| Difference between biblical and systematic theology: |
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| BT has history as an organizing theme. ST ask philosophical questions, abstract principles, uses philosophy/logic. |
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| transferring a message from one language to another |
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| transferring God's message from hebrew/grk into your own language. |
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| handwritten document or copy |
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| name 3 things important for influencing english translations |
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invention of printing press
renewed interest in classical languages
protestant reformation |
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| first complete translation into English word for word, about 1380. |
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| the first complete translation of the New Testament from Greek to English. he died before he finished the OT. |
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| complete translation of entire bible (GREAT BIBLE first authorized by church) |
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| Authorized version of 1611? |
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| KJV, but it is based on inferior greek texts, and it has lots of archaic phrases. It was only commissioned to satisfy factions in the english church. |
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| formal approach to translation: |
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| the formal approach attempts to maintain the structure of the source, so it is less sensitive to the receptor language (english), which makes it awkward because it's word for word. |
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| functional approach to translation |
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| it's more about the meaning, so it's thought-for-thought rather than word-for-word, which means that the meaning could be distorted. |
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| not a translation, but a restatement of a particular english translation using different english words. |
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| accommodates beliefs into platonic philosophy. Philo tried to reconcile the hebrew scriptures with plato. |
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allegory (moral of story, symbolism?)
philo's 3 canons for allegorical method:
if it says anything unworthy of God, if a statement is contradictory with some other statement or is difficult, or if the record itself is allegorical in nature. |
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| supercessionism / believed they were the faithful remnant of israel, used PESHER exegesis |
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| promotes obedience to torah in defense against hellenistic influence |
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| system of exegetical rules developed by rabbinic judaism where one passage can be explained by another, and something that is true in a lesser situation is also true in the stronger. |
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| claiming to find a prophecy in events of their own day or in the immediate future. |
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| changing the text to support your interpretation. |
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| allegory: passages have three meanings. |
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| literal, moral, allegorical. |
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| school of antioch emphasizes... |
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| literal, historical, but christological approach. yay, supercessionism. |
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| school of alexandria emphasizes... |
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| allegorical. each passage has body/soul/spirit. |
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| Medieval interpretation: PRDS |
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Peshat: plain/direct meaning
Remez: allegory
Derash: homiletical/creative application
Sod: mystical/secret meaning. |
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| Christian medieval interpretation emphasizes the four-fold sense of scripture: |
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literal/historical
allegorical/spiritual
tropological/moral
anagogical/eschatological |
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| relate faith and reason, yay argument, metaphysics, stuff like that. |
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| WE LIKE TO STUDY HEBREW LANGUAGE IN SCRIPTURE AGAIN. |
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| we apprecaite the past, documentary criticism/grammatical analysis. |
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| according to martin luther, only _____ has divine authority? what does he reject? |
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| rejects allegory, only scripture has divine authority. |
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| history, authority of scripture |
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| main principles of reformation:(4) |
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| sola scriptora, scripture interprets scripture, sola fide (by faith alone), religious freedom. |
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| enlightenment in science: |
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| the scientific method, natural laws. |
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| enlightenment in philosophy: |
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| human reason, autonomy, progress. |
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| what method came out of the enlightenment? |
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| the historical critical method. |
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| Different sections of the torah use different names for God, so probably written by different authors. |
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| what to look for in sentences: |
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| repetition, contrast, comparisons, lists, cause/effect, figures of speech, conjunctions, verbs, pronouns. |
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| what to look for in paragraphs: |
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general/specific
question/answer
dialogue
purpose/result
means
conditional clauses
actions/roles of god and people
emotional terms
tone |
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| what to look for in discourses |
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| connections between paragraphs and episodes, story shifts, interchange, chiasms, inclusio (begin/end with same thing) |
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| personally acquired prior knowledge that informs/influences interpretation. can be informational, attitudinal, ideological, or methodological. |
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| these are fixed, unchanging convictions that form your view of reality and interpretation of the text. These are your foundational beliefs. |
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| Historical cultural context asks: |
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| who is the author/ the audience? are there social, religious, or political elements? |
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| relates to the particular form a passage takes, and tot he words/sentences/paragraphs that surround the passage. |
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| narrative, law, poetry, prophecy, wisdom, gospel, letter, apocalyptic. SPORTS ANALOGY: Know the rules of the particular literary form. |
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| 3 steps to I.D. literary context: |
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1. id how the book is divided into paragraphs or sections.
2. summarize it.
3. how does it relate to the surrounding sections? |
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| name 3 word study fallacies: |
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| english only, root, timeframe, overload, word count, word concept, selective evidence. |
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| historical-critical / grammatical view of hermeneutics: |
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| necessary background step for all interpretation because it looks at the history behind the text and of the culture/text itself by analyzing form/source/tradition, etc., and by looking at the grammar and structure of the text. |
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| literary / postmodern view of hermeneutics: |
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| studies the text that exists, how people interpret it, and any support gained from the author's background. It focuses on the final text and how the books fit together cohesively as a whole, and makes connections. there is no absolute universal interpretation. |
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| redemptive-historical view of hermeneutics: |
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| as revelation is the interpretation of redemption, interpreting scripture is always derivative --interpretation of an interpretation. SCRIPTURE INTERPRETS SCRIPTURE. continuity between interpreter today and the NT writers? |
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| canonical criticism view of hermeneutics: |
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| what is the meaning the text has in its final form for which the community uses it? |
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| exegesis is __________ hermeneutics. |
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| applied. exegesis is applied hermeneutics. |
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| is where you determine the original text by studying all the copies you can get your grubby little hands on. |
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| a particular set of words that are related by linguistics. like spring. spring is almost here. spring forward, fall back. he will spring on his prey. etc. |
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| the three methods of biblical interpretation |
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intuitive / feels-right approach
spiritualizing approach
shrug ya shoulders approach |
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| the fixed agreement between author and reader about how to communicate i s... |
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| the COVENANT OF COMMUNICATION (ATION, ATION, ATION....) |
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| How to grasp the text in their town? |
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| read carefully, observe.study historical literary context. synthesize meaning of passage for biblical audience. |
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| how do you measure the difference between the biblical audience and you? |
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account for common differences: culture, language, situation, time, covenant, etc.
focus on unique differences in a specific text.
account for JESUS. |
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| how do you cross the principlizing bridge? |
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ID similarities between them and us.
hold the differences and similarities together. ID broad theological principle, and write it out in the present tense. |
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| how do you consult the biblical map? |
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| you ask if the principle correlates with the rest of the Bible and how, or if it is the OT, run the principle through the grid of the NT. still work? |
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| how do you grasp the text in your town? |
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| apply the theological principle to specific situation of a contemporary christian. |
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| informational preunderstanding is |
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| the info you already have about a subject before you approach it |
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| attitudinal preunderstanding is |
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| prejudice, bias, predisposition |
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| ideological preunderstanding is |
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| the way we view the complex of reality (worldview) |
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| methodological preunderstanding is |
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| the actual approach you take in explaining a subject. |
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