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What are the “23Things”

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  • Repetition of words
  • Contrasts
  • Comparisons
  • Lists
  • Cause and Effect
  • Figures of speech
  • Conjunctions
  • Verbs
  • Pronouns
  • Questions and Answers
  • Dialogue
  • Means
  • Purpose / Results Statements
  • General to specific a specific to general
  • Conditional Clauses
  • Actions and roles of God
  • Actions and roles of People
  • Emotional Terms
  • Tone of the Passage
  • Connection to the other paragraphs and episodes
  • Story shifts - Major breaks and pivots
  • Interchange
  • Chiasm
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What are the 4 Steps to the Interpretive Journey.

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  • Grasp the Text in Their Town
  • Measuring the Width of the River to Cross
  • Crossing the Principlizing Bridge
  • Grasping the Text in Our Town
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What question is asked in the Grasp the Text in Their Town?

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What did the text mean to the biblical audience?

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What question is asked in the Measuring the Width of the River to Cross?

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What are the differences between the biblical audience and us?

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What question is asked in the Principlizing Bridge?

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What is the theological principle in this text?

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What question is asked in Grasping the Text in Our Town?

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How should individual Christians today apply the theological principle in their lives?

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Why study the historical and cultural context of a passage?

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  • To grasp His word, we must understand the meaning
  • God spoke in specific, historical situations so we should understand the eternal principle
  • For interpretation to be valid, it must be consistent with the historical context
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What is the Interpretive Principle?

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  • If our interpretation wouldn’t have made sense to the audience back then – its wrong!
  • Whatever Gods intention was when it was first spoken, that’s the true meaning today!
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When studying the historical context of a passage, what must be considered?

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  • Author
  • Date
  • Audience
  • Purpose and Theme of Writer
  • The political, social, economic, and religious factors of the time
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What are the dangers of studying the background of a passage?

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  • Inaccurate infrmation
  • Putting the Background above the meaning of the text and missing the point
  • Missing the theological message by confusing it with too many facts
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What is our perception of the world called?

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A worldview - it causes us to read things in a 21st Century mindest and point of view

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What questions do you ask when studiying an AUTHOR?

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  • Who is he?
    *Where does he come from?
    *what is his role in ministry?
    *What is his relationship to the audience?
    Why is he writing this passage?
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What questions do you ask when studying DATES?

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  • When was a passage written

* What other events are occuring at this time?

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What questions do you ask when studying an AUDIENCE?

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  • Who are they?
  • What is their role in history?
  • What are their current or past circumstances?
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What questions do you ask when studiying the PURPOSE AND THEME of the writer?

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  • What issue or problem is the writer addressing?

* The broad purpose helps determine the details!

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What is meant by “literal hermeneutics?

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Its the “literary context” - not the literal meaning of the passage.

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Whats the problem with the term “literal”?

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Too many Christians misunderstand the term ans read the Bible too simplisticly.

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Name the 6 Different Genres

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  • Narrative
  • Prophetic
  • Poetry
  • Gospel
  • Epistle
  • Apocalyptic
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Name the tools an author uses when writing

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  • Simili / Metaphor
  • Figures of Speech
  • Symbolism
  • Irony
  • Misdirection
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What is a theological motif?

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The theme each book has

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What are examples of a theological motif?

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  • Creation in Genesis
  • Prophecy in Isaiah
  • History in Acts
  • Apocolype in Revelation
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22
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What is the STRUCTURE of a book?

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Its how the book is organinzed

23
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What are the 2 methods of exegetical research conducted?

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  1. Inductive Study

2. Deductive Study

24
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What is the INDUCTIVE STUDY of exegetical research?

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When we do an intensive personal study to “look into” the text.

25
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What is the DEDUCTIVE STUDY of exegetical research?

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When we look at other scholars work and “draw out” learnings - and possibly change our views

26
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What are the dangers of disregarding the literary context of a passge or book?

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  • It causes us to ignore the surrounding texts- and twists the meaning.
  • It also masks the intended truth of God’s Word.
27
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What is the basic meaning of a word known as?

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The semantic domain

28
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When studying a word, what determines which definition to apply to a word?

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The context in which the word was used

29
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Whats an example of a words definition being drivien by context?

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“Run” can mean “to walk at a fast pace” - (I will run to the fence); “ to operate a piece of machinary” - (I run a copier); or to illegally move guns” - (I run guns)

30
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What is the definition of semantics?

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The science and art of studying a word

31
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What goes into studying a word?

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You must know the grammar, historical context, meanings, culture and speech patterns…..what was the authors meaning of the word when he spoke it.

32
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What is the key question to ask when studying a word?

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What was the authors meaning of the word when he spoke it.

33
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What is a lexical fallacy also known as?

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The Overload Fallacy

34
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What assumption is made related to the lexical fallacy?

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That lexical studies can solve all theological arguments

35
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Summarize the problems of the lexical process?

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We spend too much time tracing the term throuhg literature and not enough time on the context of the passge. Then, we take so many menaings of a word and try to pile them all into the single word in question.

36
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How do we cure the problem of the lexical process?

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Understand that the correct meaning is that which contributes least to the meaning - the narrowest possible meaning is usually the most correct in the individual context.

37
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What are root word fallacies?

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That the root term of a word carries the same meaning throughout every subordinate use of the word.

38
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What is an example of a root word fallacy?

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  • Hussey and Housewife have the same root word

* BREAD and WAR have the same root words

39
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What is the misuse of a Subsequent Meaning?

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The later meaning of a word shouldnt be read back into a biblical meaning.
For example: Martyrs in first century meant “witness” but by the second century it meant “martyrdom”

40
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What us a second misuse of the Subsequent Meaning?

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We should refrain from the tendency to read 21st Century meanings into a Biblical Greek or Hebrew word

41
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What is the One Meaning Fallacy?

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The assumption that every appearance of a word should be translated by the same English word.
* The word “flesh” means a person human, earthly life, and immorality

42
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What is the Disjunctive Falllacy?

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When an argument if offered as an either/or and is presented in such a way that the reader is influenced in a direction that is not demanded by the evidence.

43
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What is the Word Fallacy?

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The failure to consider the concept of the word, as well as the word - the other ways the writer could have said the same thing

44
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What is hermeneutics?

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The art of biblical interpretation including the understanding and application of the text

45
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What is the purpose of heremneutics?

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To learn what God has to say to us

46
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What is the methodology for studying hermeneutics?

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  1. What did God intend for the original audience to understand?
  2. Derive the theological principles
  3. Apply the primciple to life
47
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What is the goal of hermeneutics?

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To apply biblical principles to life

48
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What are the four rules of theological principles?

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  1. Should be reflected in the text
  2. Should be timeless and tied to a specific situation
  3. Should not be culturally bound
  4. Should be relevant to both biblical and contemporary audience
49
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What are the four approaches to hermeneutics?

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  1. Naturalistic - approaches scripture only from what man can derive with human insight
  2. Supernaturalistic - approaches scripture with the spriritual experience in mind
  3. Existential -
    4, Dogmatic - all specific interpretation is made to conform to a predetermined system of doctrine or external authority
50
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What does the Reader bring to the text?

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Preunderstandings and Presuppostions

51
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What is a preunderstanding?

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All of the knowledge and facts we have learned in the past

52
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What is a presupposition?

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The different biblical principles a person uses to build his method of study

53
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How are preunderstandings and presuppositions different?

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Preunderstandings change each time we study - presuppositions do not

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