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Alexandrian Exegesis

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Allowed for a literal meaning, but believed it was helpful to go beyond the literal to a deeper allegorical or “spiritual” meaning, which made it possible to hear the Bible as a word to the church now (used by clement or Alexandria, Origen, Augustine, Jerome)

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Antiochene Exegesis

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The Antiochene school rejected allegorical interpretation, preferring the literal meaning instead. They did allow for typological interpretation as long as the literal meaning was retained and there were correspondences between the type and thing it pointed to. Insisted on practical application through exhortation rather than allegory. (Theodore of Mopsuestia, Chrsostom)

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Apocalypse

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A book involving narrative elements “in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and space insofar as it involves another, supernatural world

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Apodictic Law

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‘Though shalt not’

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Application

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Should be specific

Combining of readers world and authors textual world to contextualize

Ask why and how (of historical literal and intertextual contexts)

Look for big picture (community cross new creation)

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Augustine READING ON CANVAS

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Believed people needed to learn Hebrew and Greek

used allegorical interpretation

It’s okay to not understand, and when you do understand don’t be proud, always hold firmly to the spirit of love

One of the most influencial iterpreters of the bible

One of the key characters in the Alexandrian interpretation of the allegorical

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Author Text Reader

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The role of the reader: meaning is free, interpretation as creative as construction (what do you get)
Autonomous Texts: meaning as ‘free floating’ interpretation as appreciation (what does it mean)
Role of the author: meaning as determinate; interpretation as excavation (what does he/she mean)
There are positive and negative aspects too all three options

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Authors Intention

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Our goal is to grast the meaning of the text God intended

The Bible is a record of God’s communication of himself and his will to us

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Cannon

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The books of the bible that are seen as authoritative, the cannon is closed

Some parts were widely accepted early on, others too longer to be seen as authoritative and diving

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Case/Casuistic Law

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Have a cause-and-effect action using words such as when if and supposing that

The second part contains the consequence

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Chrysostom

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The opposite of Augustine, influencial interpreter, church father, valued literal meaning

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Close reading

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• The deliberate, word-by-word and phrase-by phrase consideration of all the parts of a text in order to understand it as a whole

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Historical Context

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Look up historical and geographical references

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Literary context

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Surrounding passages, surrounding chapters, books by the same author, the canon

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Discourse

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How the story is told

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Discourse and Story Level

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The story level is the ‘what’ of the story while the discourse is ‘how’ the story is told

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Eisegesis

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Reading something into the text that isn’t there

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Engaged self

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Interpretation is not only something we do but something we are

Interpretation always involves a dialectical process of distancing ourselves from the text enough to see its freeness and then allowing the text to draw us near and claim us

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Enlightenment

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A metaphor for an intellectual movement that rejected tradition, and set up the individual rational human as the authority

Major shift from medieval period

Wanted to look behind the text much more suspicion and individualistic, human centred

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Exegesis

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The careful historical, literary, and theological analysis and explanation of a text with the goal of achieving credible and coherent understanding of the text on its own terms and in its own context that may speak to us in our different-yet similar context

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Focal Images (community, cross, new creation)

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Proposed by Hays:
Community: the church is a counter cultural community of discipleship, and this community is the primary addressee of Gods imperatives. We should seek to understand what WE should do not I should do

Cross: Jesus’ death on a cross is the paradigm for faithfulness to God in his world. The cross was an act of self-giving love and the community is called to take up their cross and follow

New creation: the Church embodies the power of the resurrection in the midst of a not yet redeemed world, we hang in between the resurrection and second coming and wait in anticipation

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Formal Equivalence

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The attempt to keep as close to the form of the Hebrew/Greek text (words and grammar) as can be understood in English, will keep historical distance intact at all points

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Dynamic (Functional) Equivalence

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The attempt to keep the meaning of the Hebrew or Greek but to put their words and idioms into what would be the normal way of saying the same thing in English, keep historical distance on all historical and factual matters but ‘update’ matters of language, grammar, and style

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Genre (and biblical genres)

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Apocalypse, law, letters, narrative, poetry, and prophecy

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Heremeneutics

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The study of the activity of interpretation

About interpretation, learning to read as carefully as possible, and how to talk to others about these things

The world behind, within and in front of the text

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Hermeneutical Circle and Spiral

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Hermeneutical Circle: text —> preunderstanding—> ______—>text

Hermeneutical Circle: text —> context—> ______—>text

Hermeneutical Spiral: spiralling closer and closer to the meaning of the text

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Hermeneutics of Faith and Suspicion

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If reading is an encounter or conversation we must begin with faith, the Bible is inspired so we are called to respond with faith, but it is okay to wonder and be suspicious to recognize bias and analyze what the text means and how it relates to other passages and history

There was a shift from faith to suspicion between the medieval and enlightenment periods

Post modernism thinking involved suspicion

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Historical Criticism

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The disciplined search for history behind the texts or for the history of the texts themselves

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Holy Spirit

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Scholars have differing opinions on the role of the spirit

Its okay to say the Holy Spirit told you something as long as you are open to correction

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Fusion of Horizons

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Our present horizons of understanding are formed by the past and we can grow out horizons by learning more about the past

To understand the past we need to separate ourselves

Genuine understanding requires us to take account for the text in our own context after understanding the historical context

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Implied Author

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the perspective from which the work appears to have been written which must be reconstructed by readers on the basis of what they find in the narrative

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Marcion

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Claimed that the God of the OT was different from the God if the NT.

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Martin Luther

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Disposition of the reader is important

Didn’t like revelation

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Narrative

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Definition: a literary form characterized by sequential Tim and action involving plot, setting, and characters. It is the story form of literature

Characteristics: convey theology (do not simply report events), not always concerned with showing us how to live, convey their message indirectly, not every story has a point when considered in its own,

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Narrative and story time

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Narrative is often not trying to inform us of a a charicters traits and how to live, convey their message indirectly

Not every story has a point when considered on its own

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Obstacles to interpretation

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The distance of the river (culture, language, time, situation, covenant)

Sin

Preunderstanding

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Open and Closed Texts

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Open Texts: invite a reader’s response and require more effort to fill in gaps

Closed Texts: tend to have a single meaning and invite an author-centred approach

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Origen

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Antiochian exegesis

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Paradigm

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Concrete examples rather than abstract principles, stories or summary accounts of characters who model exemplary conduct 84 reprehensible conduct (Good Samaritan)

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Parallelism

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A two part sentence structure in which the second half is distinct from and yet connected to the first half

Synonymous: 2nd line restates the first

Antithetical: negative restatement of the second line

Synthetic: each line adds something to the picture

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Paraphrase

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The attempt to translate the ideas from one language to another, with less concern about using the exact words of the original. Tried to eliminate as much of the historical distance as possible and still be faithful to the original text

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Patristic

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Has to do with Church Fathers and important Christian writers between the late first century and the beginning of the ninth century (apostolic fathers, Ante-Nicene fathers, post nicene fathers)

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Postmodernism

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Mordenism turned in on itself
Suspicion
Everything is subjective
Exposing ‘agendas’ and power games

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Premature assimilation

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When readers jump into the application of a text without sufficient thought and without respect for the distance between them and now. This results in our controlling or domesticating the text rather than allowing the text to challenge us

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Preunderstanding

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Includes what we bring to the test before we first encounter it as well as initially perceptions and preliminary understandings

Unavoidable so we should be aware and put it to use

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Principle

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The general frameworks of moral consideration by which particular decisions about action are to be governed (the golden rule) must find their place within the story of Gods redemption if the world through Jesus

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Readers Response

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Rule

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Direct commandments or prohibitions of specific behaviours

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Semantic range

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the wide range of definitions a word can have in different contexts

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The four Senses of Scripture: Allegorical

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Everything points to the mystery that is Christ

The purpose is not so much to being one to faith as to build up and further instruct the faith already received

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The Four Senses of Scripture: Anagogical

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From the Greek “to lead up”

The enjoyment of God, ultimately in heaven

The end time or mystical contemplation of God begun now

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The four senses of scripture: literal

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Not concerned precisely with the authors intended meaning as we understand today, but rather the events narrated (hence history)

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The four senses of scripture: tropological

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To turn (conversion

The way God’s work shapes our beliefs and values so as eventually to evangelize our behaviour

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The word behind the text, within the text, and in-front of the text

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Behind the Text: that historical reality to which a narrative refers

Within the Text: the story world of the text itself; its genre and structure

In front of the text: the impact the story has on its readers

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Thick description

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Making sense on their terms we need to understand the culture to construct an image and understand what they are living through and what happens to them

Imagination and the role of the reader

Never finished: there is always more to learn and discover

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Thomas Aquinas

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An increased respect for the literal sense (authors intention rather than events described in the text) everything necessary for the faith may be found somewhere in the literal sense

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Typology

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The presupposition is that the way God worked in the past is mirrored in the way he perks in the present and future

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Word study fallacies (6)

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English only fallacy: studying English word while failing to recognize the Hebrew/Greek can be translated multiple ways

Etymological (root) fallacy: assuming the words basic meaning is found in the root or in what is used to mean in the past

Time frame fallacy: giving a later meaning to an earlier word that did not have that meaning

Illegitimate totality transfer: assuming every possible meaning of a word is intended in one passage

One meaning fallacy: assuming that a word means the same thing in every passage

Word-concept fallacy: assuming a concept can be fully explored by the stuffy of a word with which it is associated

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World formation

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A symbolic world created the perceptual categories through which we interpret reality

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Implied reader

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the one who actualizes the potential for meaning in a text, who responds to it in ways consistent with the expectations that we may ascribe to its implied author, functions as the embodiment of the right response to the authors intended communication

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