Exam 1 Flashcards
A Very broad overview Everything that I may need to know for Prinston's exam 1!!!!
Copies of the original autographs
Manuscripts
Word for word
Dynamically equivalent
“A measuring Rod” the collection of the inspired books of the Bible
Canon
The original copies of Biblical text
Autographs
Textus Receptus, (literal) Critical text, Dynamic Equivalance
Translations
Alexandrian, Cecerarean, Western, Byzantine
Textual families
Alexandrian, Caesarean
Critical Text
Byzantine
Majority Text
Orthodoxy, Liberalism, Neo- orthodoxy
Three views of inspiration
The Bible is fully the word of God
Orthodoxy
The Bible is only partly inspired
Liberalism
The Bible is God’s word differently to each person
Neo- Orthodoxy
Septuagint (LXX), Latin Vulgate, Syriac (Pershitta)
Translation Witnessess
The Basis of the OT Canon
Homologumena (to speak the same)
Fathers of the School of Alexandria
Clement & Origen
Fathers of the Period of Church councels
Augustine & Jerome
Father of the Middle Ages
Thomas Aquinas
Fathers of the Reformation
Calvin & Luther
Church father who created the four fold sense
Thomas Aquinas
Father of the Literal-historical approach
Martin Luther
Father of the grammatical-historical approach
John Calvin
Age of Literal, Typological interpretation
Apostolic period
A set of principles that help determine an author’s intentions
Hermeneutics
End of 2nd-3rd Cent. Traditional, Allegorical
The Patristic Period
End of 2nd-3rd Cent, Allegorical, Platonisim
School of Alexandria
4th Century, grammatical-historical, Aristolelian
School of Antioch
5th Century, Eclectic, multifaceted Balanced approach
The Period of the Church Fathers
The four-fold sense, fundamental use of the literal sense of scripture
Middle Ages
Desiderius Eramus, Literal-historical, Grammatical-historical
Reformation Era
Age of Historical- Critical Method
Modern Era
Literal-historical, what you see in the text is what it is
Realism
Realism
Aristotle
Spiritual, mythical, allegorical, what you see in the text is symbolic of something deeper or fuller
Idealism
Idealism
Plato
Specifies what some words or terms “refer to”
Referential
What the text says, Literal meaning, scientific definition of a term
Denotative
What the text means, a words emotional overtones
Connotative
Meaning derived from the context
Contextual
The hermaneutical challenge of separation
Distance
The world has changed since Biblical times, The text was written at different times
Time Distance
Different priorities and values than of those found in Biblical times
Culture Distance
Seeks to determine what the text says
Exegesis
The lack of understanding of surroundings of events or location
Geography Distance
Different languages used in the text most of which are inaccessible to the majority of people today
Language distance
To discern God’s message, To avoid or dispel misconceptions or erroneous perspectives and conclusions about what the Bible teaches, To be able to apply the Bible’s message to our lives
Importance of hermaneutics
Compares various manuscripts and textual traditions in order to re-produce the original
Function of textual criticism
The approach of this era was to interpret all of Scripture in light of one single Key theological idea
Alexandrian
Literal, Tropological, allegorical, anagogical
Four-fold sense
facts (sense)
Literal sense
Moral duties (sense)
Tropological
Faith of the Church (sense)
Allegorical
Hope of the church (sense)
Anogogical
Preserves various apocryphal books that were influential throughout the first 1500 years of church history
Catholic Canon
The NT authors alluded to the text as canonical
The protestant canonical defense
Rarely questioned except, Heb, James, 2 Pet, 2 & 3 John, and Jude
Canonicity of the NT
Tedious painstaking comparisons of ancient manuscripts to get a closer understanding of the text
Job of textual Critics
Formally equivalent, Dynamically equivalent, Paraphrase
Types of translations
Thought for thought
Formally equivalent
- Person of faith 2. Willing to submit to the authority of Scripture 3. Allowing the HS to guide the study of Scripture 4. Recognizing the church 5. Knowledgeable of the text
Qualifications of interpretation
The conscious or subconscious presuppositions that form the basis of our philosophy of Biblical interpretaion
Preunderstanding