FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the strategy or method used to interpret and understand the Bible.
It involves identifying steps, a way to read and piece together text and ideas and developing an eye for the patterns and developments in the text
Revelation
Revelation, when thinking about God, should be understood in two ways.
First, revelation can concern the communication of God’s attributes, general nature, truth, wisdom, and counsel. This is general revelation.
Second, revelation concerns the communication of who God is as the self-giving triune God who is expressly revealed in the Son, through whom God’s divine plan, purpose, and destiny for humanity is realized. This is special revelation.
Barriers to revelation
Culture, Distance, Language, Norms, Customs
=>As a result, there is a wide bridge to cross.
5 steps to interpretation
-Grasp the text (OG audience)
-Gain the meaning of the text (main message)
-Theological principles of text (what it communicates about God and things in relation to Him)
-How does it fit into overall Bible story (creation, fall, redemtion, resoration)
-What are the application principles (practical insights, commands, physical/cognitive, based on theological principles)
What to look for in sentences
- Repeated words
- Contrasts
- Comparisons
- Lists
- Cause and effect
- Figure of speech
- Conjunctions
- Verbs
- Pronouns
- Names
- Subject
- Adjectives
- Prepositional Phrases
- Punctuation
- Nouns
What to look for in paragraphs
- General to specific statements
- Questions and answers
- Dialogue
- Purpose/result statements
- Means
- Conditional clauses
- Actions of people/God
- Emotional terms/tone
What to look for in discourse
- Connections between paragraphs and episodes
- Story shifts and pivots
- Interchange
- Chiasm
- Inclusion
Common errors in word study
- English only fallacy (basing it in English rather than Hebrew/Greek)
- Root fallacy (the notion that the real meaning of the word can be found in the original root)
- Time frame fallacy (reading a current word meaning as the old meaning)
- Overload fallacy (that a word includes all the meanings everytime it is used)
- Word-count fallacy (that a word means the same thing every time it is used)
- Word as concept (believing that knowing one definition, we have the entire concept)
- Selective evidence (Using our favorite evidence for a word to apply to every word usage while denying or ignoring evidence that does not support our argument)
How to use a concordance
- Locate the word and the particular verse the word is found.
- Identify the number of the word, which is often found to the right of the verse where the word is found.
- Find the number of the word in the original Hebrew word list or Greek word list.
Preunderstanding
all the preconceived notions and understandings that we bring to the text, which have been formulated, both consciously and subconsciously, before we study the text.
Preunderstanding can include previous encounters with the text that we use to assume that we already understand the text.
Preunderstanding can be:
1. Informational- information one already possesses about a subject prior to approaching it.
2. Attitudinal- the disposition one brings in approaching a topic.
3. Ideological- the way we view the total of reality or hold a point of view.
Key theological frameworks of Scripture
- Trinitarian (God revealed as Father, Son, Spirit; 1 Nature (attributes), 3 persons (Eternal relations)
- Christocentric (Text points to incarnate Christ— reveals Son and benefits of his humanity/divinity for us)
- Biblical theology (is the notion that the bible reveals one story that moves through epochs that together form an organic unified story; fourfold narrative)
Authorial intent
the author determines the meaning.
=>What did the author intend to communicate?
Reader response
the reader determines the meaning.
=>What does the text mean to the reader and how is it useful?
=>NOT GOOD: Meaning must have universal application.
rule of faith
-A hypothesis, thesis, or confession of the Christian faith that derives from the Christ event and the apostolic tradition.
-Moves to see Scripture as the Mosaic of Christ
-Uses the canon not as a set of inherited doctrines existing apart from scripture but as the articulation of the hypothesis
Elements of poetry
- Parallelism (Synonimous, developmental, illustrative, constrative, formal)
- Acrostics (alphabetized lines)
- FOS (Simile, metaphor…)
- Indirect analogy (use an analogy without directly stating the comparison
- Hyperbole (an exaggertion for the sake of effect or an expression of strong feeling)
6.Personification/anthropomorphism (attributing human features/characteristics to something)
