Parables pt 3: “Indentify the Original Audience” to “Interpreting w/o Interpreting” Flashcards
Identify the Original Audience
The impact of the parable and thus its intended meaning has to do with the way the parable would have been ______ heard.
The impact of the parable and thus its intended meaning has to do with the way the parable would have been ORIGINALLY heard.
*we must identify the original audience and try and hear the parable as they would have heard it
Identify the Original Audience
Four steps/things to do:
1. ______ the stated hearers from the context of the parables in the Gospels and learn what you can from them both from the pages of Scripture and from historical study.
- IDENTIFY the stated hearers from the context of the parables in the Gospels and learn what you can from them both from the pages of Scripture and from historical study.
Identify the Original Audience
Four steps/things to do:
2. ___ and _____ to the parable again and again.
- SIT and LISTEN to the parable again and again.
Identify the Original Audience
Four steps/things to do:
3. Identify the ___ __ ______ intended by Jesus that would have been picked up by the original hears.
- Identify the POINTS OF REFERENCE intended by Jesus that would have been picked up by the original hears.
Identify the Original Audience
Four steps/things to do:
4. try to determine how the original hearers would have identified with the story, and therefore what they would have ____.
- try to determine how the original hearers would have identified with the story, and therefore what they would have HEARD.
Parables of the Kingdom
All of the parables that Jesus told focus in one way or another on the ____ of the Kingdom of God. However, there are a number of parables that begin, “The kingdom of God __ ___…”
All of the parables that Jesus told focus in one way or another on the NATURE of the Kingdom of God. However, there are a number of parables that begin, “The kingdom of God IS LIKE…”
Parables of the Kingdom
Parables that begin with, “The kingdom of God is like…”
are to be interpreted just as the other ones. They are not primarily teaching illustrations of the Kingdom of God, but stories with reference points for his hearers and an ______ conclusion.
Parables that begin with, “The kingdom of God is like…” are to be interpreted just as the other ones. They are not primarily teaching illustrations of the Kingdom of God, but stories with reference points for his hearers and an UNEXPECTED conclusion.
Parables of the Kingdom
The unexpected conclusion however serves to press upon the hearer the need to respond to or ___ based upon a new or _______ understanding of the kingdom of God.
The unexpected conclusion however serves to press upon the hearer the need to respond to or ACT based upon a new or ENLIGHTENED understanding of the kingdom of God.
Interpreting Without Interpreting
The hermeneutical task posed by the parables is unique. It has to do with the fact that when they were originally spoken, they _____ needed interpretation.
The hermeneutical task posed by the parables is unique. It has to do with the fact that when they were originally spoken, they SELDOM needed interpretation.
Interpreting Without Interpreting
So how do we study the parables for our day without interpreting them and thus spoiling their “_____”?
We might try retelling the story in such a way that, with new points of reference, one’s own hearers might ____ the anger, or joy, the original hearers experienced.
So how do we study the parables for our day without interpreting them and thus spoiling their “PUNCH?”
We might try retelling the story in such a way that, with new points of reference, one’s own hearers might FEEL the anger, or joy, the original hearers experienced.
