The Interpretive Journey
Step one of The Interpretive Journey
What is Grasp the Text in Their Town?
This doctrine refers to the fact that God has made himself known to us.
What is revelation?
This literary genre takes up almost half of the Bible
What is narrative?
Information about the biblical writer, the biblical audience, and other historical elements touched on by the passage itself
What is historical-cultural context?
A collection of ancient literature that tells a unified story about God and humankind, culminating in the person of Jesus Christ.
What is the Bible?
Step two of The Interpretive Journey
What is measure the width of the river to cross?
This word refers to the fact that Bible has no errors in it.
What is inerrancy?
Main characters of the Bible
What is God and humans?
This determines meaning of a passage
What is context?
The art and science of biblical interpretation
What is Hermeneutics?
Culture, time, location, situation, language, covenant
What is "what's in the river?"
This word means "breathed out" by God.
What is Inspiration?
The original acronym that divides the Old Testament
What is TaNaK?
Texts that surround a passage you're studying
What is surrounding context?
This discipline of study answers the question, "what do we believe about the Bible?"
What is bibliology?
The way we cross "the river"
What is build a bridge of principles?
The two types of revelation
Knowing that the Bible is this type of literature forces us as readers to slow down while reading it
What is ancient Jewish meditation literature?
The form a passage takes
What is genre?
Reason intuitive method is not best for biblical interpretation
What is it makes the reader's feelings the determiner of meaning?
What is grasp the text in our town?
Reason why is it necessary to add “original autographs” to our definition of inerrancy
What is because the Bible has been translated and translations are not inerrant? (though they are reliable)
This literary style is 1/4 of the Bible, it is about sequencing ideas into arguments. It forces the reader to think logically as the author tries to persuade. Speeches, letters, law codes, and wisdom texts are examples of this style.
What is prose discourse?
The most important thing to know about the biblical writer
What is WHY they wrote?
All of our preconceived notions and understandings that we bring to the text, which have been formulated, both consciously and subconsciously, before we actually study the text in detail
What is preunderstanding?