Biblical Interpretations Test #1 Flashcards
What is moving the meaning of a text from one language to another?
Translation
What are the two main approaches to translation?
- Formal
2. Functional
What are some of the difficulties of translation?
- no two words are exactly alike
- the vocabulary in any two languages varry in size
- languages have different style preferences
- languages utilyz syntax differently
What are the four steps of the Interpretive Journey?
- Grasping the text in their town
- Measuring the width of the river to cross
- Crossing the principlizing bridge
- Consult the biblical map
When observing a passage what was the 9 lists of things?
- repetition of words
- Contrast
- Comparisons
- Lists
- Cause and Effect
- Figures of speech
- Conjuntion
- Verbs
- Pronouns
when observing a passage what are the other things to look for on top of the the 9? HINT: there are 10 of them
- Questions and Answers
- Dialogue
- Means
- Purpose/result statements
- General to specific and specific to general
- Conditional clauses
- Actions/roles of God
- Actions/roles of people
- Emotional terms
- Tone of the passage
What is the definition of discorse?
can be a smaller episode within a story or it can be the bigger story itself
what are the two major forms of context?
- Historical context
2. Literary context
What does the historical-cultural context include?
biblical writer and the biblical audience, plus any historical-cultural elements touched on by your passage
What are some of the dangers with studing background?
one of the greatest dangers is ignoring the historical-cultural context.
what are the tools for understanding historical-background of a book or passage of Scripture?
- grasing the historical-cultual context of the book that contains your passage
- recognize the specific histoical-cultural context of the passage itself.
What should be the relationship between the Bible and our preunderstanding?
- We should not bring any cultural baggage or preunderstanding into the text before we read a passage.
What are the dangers of pre-understanding?
- That we bring in things we assume are correct and it fogs up our understanding of the Bible which sometimes doesnt let us learn new things becasue we claim to “already know it all”
what shapes our cultural perspective?
how we live
What are foundational beliefs?
- The Bible is the Word of God.
- The Bible is trustworthy and true
- God has entered into human history; thus the supernatural does occur
- The Bible is not contradictory; it is unified, yet diverse.
What determines meaning?
Context determines meaning
What are the dangers of disregarding literary context?
- is ignoring the surrounding text
2. is topical preaching
What are the three steps for reading something in context?
- What is this unit’s role or funtion or purpose in the book?
- What would happen if we removed this section from the book?
- Why did the author include this section as a crucial part of the whole?
What are the steps of block diagramming?
- separate the passage into paragraphs
- separate the passage into sentences
- separate the sentence into a clause
- indent to show relationship
- dont be afraid to break up sentences
- figure out the thought relationships
