The original languages of the Old and New Testament.
What are Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek?
100
The author's intended meaning (human and divine) in a specific context and thus includes spiritual meaning.
What is literary meaning?
100
Ancient biographies of Jesus Christ.
What are gospels?
100
These are three Literary features of OT narrative.
What are plot, setting, and characters?
200
All possible meanings of a word.
What is the semantic range?
200
The technical discipline that compares the various copies of a biblical text in an effort to determine what was most likely the original text.
What is textual criticism?
200
The Holy Spirit's work in the lives of the human authors of Scripture resulting in communicating what God wanted to communicate.
What is inspiration?
200
A situational or occasional text written to a particular audience.
What are NT letters?
200
Terseness, parallelism, and acrostics.
What are the elements of OT poetry?
300
All of our preconceived notions and understandings- consciously and unconsciously.
What is pre-understanding?
300
The original documents of scripture.
What are the autographs?
300
The response of the reader to the meaning of the inspired text.
What is application?
300
A prophetic-apocalyptic letter.
What is Revelation?
300
These are Inspired models of how to talk and sing to God.
What is a psalm?
400
What the author wishes to communicate through the text by their chosen signs (i.e., grammar, syntax, word meanings etc,). It is set by the author and does not change from reader to reader.
What is meaning?
400
An approach to Bible translation that tries to stay as close as possible to the structure and words of the original text.
What is the formal approach?
400
A Jewish system of interpretation that assigns number values to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet and then looks for meanings based on these numbers.
What is Gematria?
400
A story with two levels of meaning, where certain details represent something else.
What is a parable?
400
These are short sayings describing the rational ordered norms of life.
What is a proverb?
500
The approach that stresses the reader in the determination of meaning.
What is reader response?
500
The first step on the interpretive journey.
What is grasp the text in their town?
500
An historical event or person in the OT that serves as a prophetic pattern or example of a NT event or person, usually Jesus.
What is a typology?
500
The story of the spread of Christianity across the New Testament world.