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| What does a reader bring to the text? |
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| preunderstandings & presuppositions |
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| Jewish debates took place from when to when... |
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| 2nd century BC to 1st century AD |
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| the early period of interpretation mainly believed... |
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| the faith and practices of communities were believed to be in accordance with what was taught in the scriptures. |
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| what 2 schools came in the early period? |
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| schools of hillel and shammai (the pairs) |
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| Hellel's 7 exegetical rules |
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| a focus on scripture interpreting scripture, the importance of literary context, etc. |
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| example of the third party hindrance to interpretation |
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| "how to instructions" relating to the law, living body of information. |
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| 2 forms of oral traditions |
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| midrash (to search and inquire) and mishnah (to repeat or learn). |
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| 2 types of materials along with rabbinic literature (oral traditions) |
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| halakah (to walk) and haggadah (to tell, narrate) |
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(to finish or to complete) - moses received written law and the way to tell the community-oral traditions.
tried to answer questions left by the mishnah |
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| discerning the message, focuses on particular text, then bring that to your audience |
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| form and a book, taking a topic and find teachings about the topic and place them together |
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| when were the oral traditions written down |
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| (study, instruction) commentary on the law and oral traditions |
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| the talmud studied by which two groups? |
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| palestinian and babylonian (babylonian most reliable and most referred to today) |
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| translations and interpretations |
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| the allegorical method of interpretation |
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| (like narnia) from Judaism-Phil 1st century |
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| alexandria, egypt trying to share his faith |
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1. when find anything in scripture that has nothing to do with God, allegorize it.
2. anytime he thought he found a contradiction, he categorized it
3. turned non inspirational scripture into inspirational and spiritual meaning |
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| the patristic period (AD 95-590) |
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| canon, divinity, and humanity of Christ. |
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| what 2 schools came along with the patristic period? |
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| school of thought, allegorical method |
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| origen's 3 fold meaning... |
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| every passage of scripture had 3 different levels of meaning - body (literal), soul (personal relationships), and spirit (relationship between God and humanity) |
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| school of thought, read in more literal fashion, surface level. |
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| what has been the dominant approach to reading the scriptures throughout history? |
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| the school of alexandria's method has made its way through the centuries the most |
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| 3 obstructions in interpretation in medieval period |
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| illiteracy, slow dissemination of ideas, ecclesiastical or church control |
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| medieval period - 4 fold meaning |
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| literal (historical events), allegorical (beliefs), anagogical (christian goals and hopes), and tropological (morals and ethics) |
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| 2 main guys involved with reformation |
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| supreme authority of scripture; abandoned 4 fold interpretation, Holy Spirit best teacher, right of private judgment, Christocentric approach |
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| law of accomodation, contempt for exogetical frivolites, abhored hollow orthodox; concern w/ authorial intent, let scripture help interpret scripture |
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reationalism - Hobbes, Decartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume and Kant
the human intellect is capable in and of itself of determining what is true and false, right and wrong |
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| post-reformation to present |
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| age of reason - the bible is true where its conclusions correspond with humanities independent reason. (fixed laws of the universe) |
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| the historical-critical method |
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| the historical-critical method |
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| everything needs to be verifiable, explainable. reules out everything spritiual/supernatural |
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Goal: the quest for the historical Jesus - the jesus of history
what was the discovery? |
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| a jesus that conformed to the contemporary pattern of 19th century life. a mirror image of the interpreter |
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| shift away from histrorical interests. |
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-form criticism (dibelius, buttman, and perrin)
-oral traditions - led to telling of stories |
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| a Christ we can believe in |
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| proclamation or teaching of early christian church |
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| funk, crossan, attridge, fortna, robinson, wink |
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| the 5 gospels: the search for the authentic words of Jesus |
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| no concern for canonical boundaries, a colorcoded version |
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| I. Howard marshall - I believe in the Historical Jesus. marshalls perspective on reality |
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| what is postmodernism all about? |
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a new view of the universe - kierkegard, nietzche, sarte, others argued for "a new mentality"
-a lack of confidence in anything
-the invasion of change - change as a part of life, cultures
-elements leading to a suspicion of al facts, knowledge, beliefs or authority
(bloodletting, GW) |
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| common postmodern assumptions |
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1. the absence of any universal truths, only social contextual values
&cultures cannot be built on absolute truths, which are embedded in universe
&truth is defined as social argument
&metonarratives are no longer relevant
2. language is never precise, but always ambiguous
&no referential meaning (view language has meaning as it refers to something outside itself)
&uncontrollable (cannot write so every reader understands the same way)
3. history cannot be written
&past cannot be reconstructed by careful and objective study
-commitments, vested interests, and positions of power cannot be put aside to write unbiased histories
-history as antibiographical fiction
--the telling of history as related to ones ideology (all those social relationships and assumptions we value)
--history from christian perspective - tendency to demonstrate superiority of Christianity
-ideological criticism |
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| implications of post modernism on biblical studies |
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-BS seen as being dominated by male, clerical and western in outlook
-a call for a broadened approach that doesnt bind the reader to what the author meant to say
-a call to move objectively from concern
-a call to embrace our own contexts and interests
(as readers we are involved in the process of constucting new texts and contexts) |
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| 2 types of background studies |
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| the surrounding circumstances |
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| phonology (pronunciation), morphology (form of word), lexicology (form/meaning of words) |
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| relationship between words (syntax) |
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| historical and social setting |
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| how is the term "history" to be understood? |
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| if you were to write a history of someones life what info would you need |
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| 2 types of history in the text |
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| history found in the text |
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| what can be concluded from the dual nature of history |
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| all history is interpreted history |
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| age of patriarchs (2000-1300 BC) to prophets of 8th to 6th centuries BC or 2nd depending on dating of daniel |
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a reflection of jewish life during the 2nd temple and early christian periods
-means apocalypces, testaments, rewritings of the Bible, psalms. & writings written under someone elses name |
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| the dead sea scrolls (200 BC-AD 60) |
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-initial discovery (1946); further disc. 1947-1956
-languages of the scrolls-hebrew, aramaic, greek
-dating of the scrols - 200 BC - AD 60
-the essenes at khirbet qumran (SE near jerusalem near the dead sea) |
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1. hebrew bible
2. apocryphal and pseaudepigrahpical writings
3. commentaries on canonical books (habakkuk, isaiah, hosea, micah)
4. books relating to the qumran commentaries (the manual of disciple, the damascus doc., the war scroll) |
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jewish philosopher, and biblical exegete.
-accomadate jewish faith to hellenistic culture
-allegorical approach to interpretation
-mishnah, gemara, talmud |
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"the jewish war" and "the antiquities of the jews"
-groups, institutions, geographic locations, events
-john the baptist, pharisees and saducees, herod the great, the destruction of the temple |
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philosophical systems - stoicism, epicureanism, neopythagoreanism, and neoplatonism
humans-microcosm of the universe
goal of life - living according to reason
emotional attachment
-a concern with ethics
--parallels with NT in terms of imagery and expression
--life as involving warfare
--logos terminology (john 1:1)
--ethical behavior
different with NT thought:
stoicisms focus on materialism
-a lack of consciousness of moral sin and guilt in relation to god |
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| princioples and procedures for bg studies |
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1. who is involved?
2. determine time period
3.locate place
4. customs, practices
5. how past occurences effect present behavior
6. notice forces that brought stability or instability in economy
7. how narrative transcends surroundings
8. historical-cultural gap |
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| procedures for dealing with bg issues |
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1. recognize the elements in passage that require knowledge of BG info
2. seek to understand the items using the best resources
3. apply findings to interpretation of passage |
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