08: Hermeneutics Flashcards
1
Q
Define Hermeneutics
A
The theory of interpretation
2
Q
Define Exegesis
A
The practice of interpretation
(“leading out”, as opposed to exegesis)
3
Q
What is the first step in analyzing a narrative text?
A
- Analyze the literary shape of the passage
- Characters
- Who are the characters carrying the action?
- Who are the background characters?
- Where is the focus?
- What are the good and bad characters?
- Plot
- Themes
- Tension/Release
- Repeated Words
- Characters
4
Q
What is the second step in analyzing a narrative text?
A
- Perform a Close Reading of the Text in its Various Contexts
- Historical Context
- What is the historical context?
- What historical background is there for the characters?
- Literary Context
- Where does the passage fit into the whole book?
- Redemptive-Historical Context
- Where does the passage fit into the flow of Genesis to Revelation?
5
Q
What is the third step in analyzing a narrative text?
A
- What aspects of God’s promises are present in the pericope? What covenantal affections/actions are incumbent on the original audience?
- What was the author trying to say to the original audience?
- What was the intended response of the original audience?
- What should be our response?
6
Q
What is the “intentional fallacy”?
A
It is fallacious to believe that you can know the author’s intent.
7
Q
What is the flow of intentional fallacy’s argument?
A
- Because we don’t know the author, we only have the text to go to.
- But the text is not exhaustive in its meaning…
- (One term can mean different things)
- Coupled with the idea that every reader comes to the text with its own presuppositions…
- (the reader projects his own meaning to the non-exhaustive term)
- Eliminate the meaning of the text…
- it is only the reader and his thoughts
8
Q
What are some objections to the intentional fallacy?
A
- Authors reveal themselves in their writing
- Most communication intends to convey something
- Authorial intent is the basis for a reader finding meaning in a text.
