Week 3 Biblical Interpretation

Question 1

NT authors considered OT historical

Answer 1

truthfully relating actual events

Question 2

NT authors considered OT to be Word of God

Answer 2

spoken by God

Question 3

NT authors considered context of passages

Answer 3

Mostly

Question 4

NT authors employed OT in typological way

Answer 4

Some things pointed to greater thing without losing their own significance

Question 5

NT authors employed OT in messianic way

Answer 5

Pointed to Christ in OT

Question 6

Types point to antitype

Answer 6

Antitype is the authentic thing

Question 7

Allegory did not lose original meaning

Answer 7

Eg Hagar and Sarah in Galatians 4

Question 8

Allegorical interpretation became popular

Answer 8

100-500 ad. Incl Augustine

Question 9

Fourfold meaning of Scripture became popular

Answer 9

500-1500 ad

Question 10

Four meanings

Answer 10

Literal, moral, allegorical (spiritual), heavenly (eschatological/anagogical)

Question 11

Literal

Answer 11

Ex Jerusalem is a physical place

Question 12

Moral

Answer 12

Jerusalem is the human soul

Question 13

Spiritual/allegorical

Answer 13

Jerusalem is the Christian soul

Question 14

Heavenly/eschatological/anagogical

Answer 14

Heavenly city

Question 15

Return to faithful interpretive method

Answer 15

1500 - present

Question 16

Ad fontes and sola scriptura

Answer 16

mottos of faithful interpretation movement

Question 17

Not just Greek but Bible

Answer 17

Luther returned to the Bible as authoritative

Question 18

Anti Supernatural bias

Answer 18

1650 - present

Question 19

Good interpretive principle 1: prayerful

Answer 19

John 14:26, 1 Cor 2:12-13 God reveals through Spirit. Need humility.

Question 20

Good interpretive principle 2: Bible points to Jesus

Answer 20

John 5:39 you search the Scriptures

Question 21

Good interpretive principle 3: Analogy of faith

Answer 21

Let scripture interpret scripture. By reading NT you better understand OT.

Question 22

Good interpretive principle 4: Meditate

Answer 22

“Deep thinking for understanding”

Ps 119 O how I love your law.

Question 23

Good interpretive principle 5: Attitude of faith and obedience

Answer 23

Ps 119

Question 24

Good interpretive principle 6: Note genre

Answer 24

Law, prophecy, gospel, apocalypse, narrative, discourse, parable, poetry–sometimes a combination

Question 25

Good interpretive principle 7: Note historical and cultural background issues

Answer 25

patriarchal, Jewish, pagan, Roman, Assyrian, Babylonian, pre-flood etc

Question 26

Good interpretive principle 8: Context

Answer 26

popularly used verses often aren’t supported by context

Question 27

Good interpretive principle 9: Read in community

Answer 27

Col 3:16 Let word dwell in you plural richly.

Question 28

Good interpretive principle 10: Begin the journey of becoming a more faithful interpreter

Answer 28

Entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others.

Question 29

Avoid gnostic search for hidden meaning

Answer 29

by understanding that God really spoke through human penmen, in human language who wrote in a historical context for a present audience –S Ferguson

Question 30

It can’t mean more

Answer 30

than it meant to original writer