The Need to Interpret
to determine the author's intended meaning.
What is Exegesis?
All of our preconceived notions and understanding that were formed before studying the text in detail. Give an example..
What is pre-understanding? Jonah
The languages that the Bible was originally written in.
What is Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic?
Determining the occasion and the purpose of the Biblical books.
What is Historical Context?
Standing over the word of God and determine what it means that were formed before studying the text in detail.
What is eisegesis?
This version uses thought for thought.
70 people who translated the OT from which language.
What are the 70 Rabbis who translated the OT from Hebrew to Greek?
Tracing the writer's point by looking at the surrounding sentences to recognize the units of thought.
What is Literary Context
When our family and national values, ideas and images fill in the gaps and ambiguities in the biblical texts with explanations and background from our culture.
What is cultural baggage?
Word for word
What is NASB or KJV?
The attempt to keep as close to the original from as possible in both words and grammar
What is Formal Equivalence?
This is wrong to do when your aim is good interpretation.
What is being unique?
A science that works with careful controls.
It is between thought for thought and word for word.
What is NIV*
The attempt to keep the meaning of the Hebrew or Greek but put words and idioms in a normal way of speaking in English.
What is Functional Equivalence?
Always required.
When is exegesis required?
The character and quality of manuscripts and the kinds of mistakes to which copyists were susceptible.
What is internal and external evidence?
It is translated from the Septuagint.
What is NIV/NRSV?
The caves that the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in.
What is the Qumran?