Final Flashcards
Define and distinguish between authorial intention and reader response.
Authorial intent is what the writer meant by their writing, while reader response is how the reader chooses to respond to that reading.
Define author, meaning, and application as they relate to biblical interpretations.
Author-Human and Divine author grouped.
Meaning- What the author wishes to convey.
Application- refers to the response the reader has to the text.
Explain the primary danger of seeking a deeper, spiritual meaning in the biblical text.
The primary danger of doing this is not finding the literal meaning of the text.
Define typology and foreshadowing.
Typology is similar to foreshadowing but generally requires a specific biblical New Testament correspondence of fulfillment.
Foreshadowing is general and makes general connections between something that will happen in the future.
Explain Matthew, Mark, and Luke are synoptic Gospels.
They are called this because they can be “seen together” when placed side by side.
State and apply the two interpretive questions that allow passages from the gospels to be read rightly.
1 What does this small story tell us about Jesus?
2-What is the gospel writer trying to say to his readers by the way that he puts the smaller stories together?
Identify and describe the special literary forms found in the Gospels. What is the key to interpreting each special literary form?
Exaggeration- when the truth is overstated.
Metaphor and simile- like/as statements, describing something as compared to something else.
Narrative Irony- Contrast between what was expected and what happened.
Rhetorical Questions- rather than an answer.
Parallelism- Relationship between lines of text.
Parables- A story with two levels of meaning.
Explain the relationship between Luke and Acts.
Believed to be the same author.
Opening implies connection
Thematic and structural parallels exist between the two books.
The ending of Luke overlaps with the beginning of Acts.
Describe the significance of designating Acts as theological history.
Knowing that Acts is a historical account and that Luke was a historian helps us to see the significance of this book to the truth of the Bible.
Distinguish between normative and descriptive interpretations of Acts. Explain why a both-and approach is better than either of the previous strategies.
The normative approach says we should exactly imitate the church in acts while a descriptive approach says what was inspiring for the church in acts is not binding to us today. A both-and approach is best because it allows for a mix of the two to apply to our world today.
Describe the three literary genres which comprise Revelation.
The three literary genres of Revelation are Letter, Prophetic letter, and prophetic-apocalyptic letter.
Identify the purpose of Revelation.
Revelation allows us to see our world with a heavenly perspective. They can see the present from the perspective of its final outcome.
Explain the four traditional interpretive approaches to Revelation. Why do the authors of Grasping Gods Word propose an eclectic approach?
Preterist- Understood in light of the original audience.
Historicist- Timeline/History
Futurist-Future events
Idealist- No timeline/ Ongoing battle of good and evil.
They think that combining all the approaches is the best way to approach the book. They think that we have to combine all the approaches to get an accurate interpretation.
Explain the Traditional approach to interpreting Old Testament Law. What are the two fatal flaws of this approach?
The traditional approach has been to emphasize the distinction between moral, civil, and ceremonial laws. The two flaws are no distinction between which laws we follow today and those we don’t and there is no way to distinguish whether a law falls into the moral category or a different one.
Describe the role of narrative and covenant context in interpreting Old Testament Law.
The narrative context shows us the theological narrative of God’s deliverance of Israel. While covenant context shows us how God presented the law as part of the covenant with the Israelites.
