Quiz I

Question 1

What is Hermeneutics?

Answer 1

Hermeneutics is both the art & science of proper reading, interpreting & applying the Bible.

Question 2

What are the 2 types of hermeneutics?

Answer 2

General Hermeneutics

Special Hermeneutics

Question 3

Why is there a need for solid Hermeneutics?

Answer 3

• Heresy, error, cults
• Translations
• Contradictions

Question 4

What are 3 basic elements of approaching scripture?

Answer 4

Observation… What does it say?

Interpretation… What did it mean?

Application… What should I do?

Question 5

What are things to observe when going deeper with inductive bible study?

Answer 5

What genre of writing are we talking about?

Who is writing or speaking and to whom?

When does it take place?

Where does this take place?

Why does the author write what he does?

How does this section fit with the rest of the passage?

Are there commandments?

Are there promises?

Are there questions?

Are there important relationships?

Are there repeated words or ideas?

What is said about God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit?

What do we learn about humanity?

Question 6

What are things to interpret when going deeper with inductive bible study?

Answer 6

What is the purpose of the passage?

What would this have meant to those who read or heard the words first?

What are the meaning of the words?

What does the immediate context suggest?

What is the immediate meaning?

Question 7

What are things to apply when going deeper with inductive bible study?

Answer 7

Teaching- what did I learn?

Reprove- where/why do I fall short?

Correction- what will I do about it?

Training in righteousness- how I can make this principle a consistent part of my life?

Question 8

What are the various elements of Biblical Studies?

Answer 8

Canonicity

Textual Criticism

Historical Criticism

Hermeneutics

Biblical Theology

Systematic Theology

Question 9

What is Canonicity?

Answer 9

The study of the process by which Israel and the Church arrived at those books that are included in the Old and New Testament and those that were rejected. It is definitive and authoritative.

Question 10

What is Textual Criticism?

Answer 10

The attempt to get as far back to the original text (autograph) as possible and arrive at the exact wording that was found in it.

Also known as lower criticism.

Question 11

What is Historical Criticism?

Answer 11

The study of the authorship of the books, the dates of composition, the historical circumstances and it’s authenticity and literary unity.

Also known as higher criticism.

Question 12

Herm

Answer 12

Yo

Question 13

Which type of theology examines what the text meant to the original audience?

Answer 13

Biblical Theology

Question 14

What is Systematic Theology?

Answer 14

It is the study of individual biblical concepts and themes from many angles. It then groups them together in a logical manner.

Question 15

What meanings create different vantage points?

Answer 15

Context-Centred Meaning (world BEHIND the text), the meaning is solely found in the author’s intention and context

Text-Centred Meaning (world IN the text), meaning is only actually language as a literary reality

Reader-Centred Meaning (world IN FRONT of the text), there could be many meanings, determined by the context of the reader, not the author

Question 16

How do we create a balanced approach?

Answer 16

• The Author Context
• The Literary Context
• The Context of the Original Readers (them)
• The Context of All Readers (us)

Question 17

What is General Hermeneutics?

Answer 17

Covers principles of interpretation that essentially relate to the entire biblical text.

Includes: historical & cultural contextual studies, grammatical and syntactical context studies, issuers related to the nature of biblical revelation, theological tradition and the New Testament’s relationship and use of the Old Testament

Then and there to here and now (their town to our town)

Question 18

What is Special Hermeneutics?

Answer 18

Covers issues related to the interpretation of the various distinct genres of scripture (narrative, parables, etc.)

Question 19

Why is Hermeneutics considered a science?

Answer 19

A good hermeneutical method that bears consistently accurate interpretations does not have rules and these rules can be classified into an orderly system.

Question 20

Why is Hermeneutics considered art?

Answer 20

Communication is very flexible and certainly carries an intuitive component, and therefore a mechanical and rigid application of rules will sometimes distort the true meaning of communication.

Question 21

What tips can be used when reading a sentence?

Answer 21

Repetition of words

Contrasts

Comparisons

Lists

Cause & Effect

Figures of Speech

Conjunctions

Verbs

Pronouns

Question 22

What tips ca be used when reading paragraphs?

Answer 22

General & Specific

Questions & Answers

Dialogue

Purpose Statements

Means (How?)

Conditional Clauses

Actions/Roles

Emotional Terms

Tone

Question 23

What tips can be used when reading discourses?

Answer 23

Connections between paragraphs and episodes

Story Shifts, major breaks and pivots

Interchange

Chaism (literary device)

Inclusio (where the author chooses to end with the same theme, thought, event, activity that they began with)