Lectures - Other Flashcards
Invisible Whiteness in Bible Study
(3)
- PhD requires knowing modern German and French, prioritizing European interpretation
- Euro / white approaches are assumed to be normative
- Scholars of color are less active in field because they are discriminated against and have chosen out of limiting perspectives
The scientific focus of European biblical studies
(3)
- Discounts supernatural occurrences in scripture
- One of most oldest and most respected journals is “Science of the OT”
- Ignored demands of text in favor of scientific understanding
The historical focus of European biblical studies
(3)
- Although ANE didn’t concern itself with authorship, modernity does
- Source criticism: trying to assign authorship to bits of text
- Redaction criticism: once bible atomized, need to figure out how and why things edited together
Why Dr. Matt drawn to AA Biblical Interpretation?
(5)
- Bring scripture into conversation with suffering
- Civil rights movement embodies the bible
- Offers refuge from Euro-centric scholarship
- Creative, insightful, knowledge of scripture and connects with real world
- AA experience makes bible come to life in new ways
What Martin Luther King, Jr. said in this eulogy at 16th century Baptist Church?
Despite darkness, we must not despair or lose faith in white brothers, must believe they can learn to respect the dignity of all humans
What Frederick Douglass did in “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Compares plight of enslaved people in USA with Israel taken into captivity by Babylonians
Quotes Psalm 137 - Asking AA to celebrate 4th of July like asking Jews to sing on shores of Babylon
What the Middle Passage is and the major biblical event that closely relates to it?
Europeans bought and captured enslaved people and transported to USA across ocean on cramped and inhumane ships
Like the Israelites being taken into Exile
What is Divine Passion?
The idea that God experiences passions, emotions, feelings, pathos, or suffering
Abraham Herschel’s Divine Passion Emphasis
Emphasized the difference between God and Humanity
Terry Fretheim’s Divine Passion Emphasis
Emphasized both the similarities and the differences between God and Humanity
Walter Brueggeman’s Divine Passion Emphasis
Emphasized the similarities between God and Humanity
Different theories of how the OT and NT relate
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1) A Trinitarian Approach
2) Get Rid of the OT
3) Two Covenants
4) Allegory / Typology
5) Progressive Revelation
6) Dispensationalism
7) Jesus is the Center of the OT
A Trinitarian Approach
Definition & Implication
Definition: The bible reflects the Trinity, and different parts emphasize different persons
Implication: Bible reflects unity of God, both OT and NT are important
Get Rid of the OT
Definition & Implication
Definition: OT is bad and represents mean God, get rid of it
Implication: Hollowed-up bible
Two Covenants
Definition & Implication
Definition: OT reveals God’s covenant with Israel, NT reveals covenant with humanity
Implication: OT deals with more than one covenant
Allegory / Typology
Definition & Implication
Definition: OT contains many details that symbolically look beyond themselves to another reality
Implication: Not every text allegorical and allegorical meaning not self evident
Progressive Revelation
Definition & Implication
Definition: God does not reveal everything all at once, but slowly over time
Implication: OT primitive text, God reveal good stuff in NT
Dispensationalism
Definition & Implication
Definition: God relates differently to humanity at different times
(OT: Law, NT: Grace)
Implication: OT primitive, from a bygone era
Jesus is the Center of the OT
Definition & Implication
Definition: All OT texts are about and point to Jesus
Implication: Jesus becomes most important part of Trinity and OT is obsolete
