1. Scripture interprets Scripture

2. Difficult reading is favored over easier

3. understand what it meant to know what it means

4. do not allegorize (few exceptions)

1. Text cannot mean what it never meant

2. Notice character of the letter: form or ad hoc? occasional

3. Notice the parts of the letter (greeting, thanksgiving)

4. Notice the Theoretical tool the writer is using

5. pay attention to the historical context

6.Identify and inderstand the audience

7. Indentify the keywords

8. Notce the literary context

9. Discover the particulars of the situation

10. when we share particulars with the original audience, the message to us is the same as the message to them

11. Distinguish between principle and application

What do we mean when we ask if we share particulars with the original audience?

Rule #10

When we share particulars with the original audience, the message to us is the same as the message to them.

Prescription - telling us what to do

Description - how to do it

What are Rhetorical tools?

Triangle Diagram

God

Israel

Individual

and

family

story

- to inform list of questions and other steps

- helps us understand what the original readers were thinking and doing at the time

Tongues is the initial physical evedince of baptism in the Holy Spirit.

- we use this as a basis for biblical doctrine of speaking in tongues

1. Ot is a covenant

2. OT is not our testament

3. Some OT stipulations are not renewed

4. Some OT covenant stipulation are renewed

5. Still God's word to us even though it is not His command to us

1. Casuistic law - Applies general law to specific situations

-written in 3rd person

2. Apodictic Law

-Absolute Law no case applied

3.Legal series

- Often poetic form grouped topicall

1. The law is the guidelines for living in covenant relationship with Yaweh

2 Covenant is key

3. Application is key

4. It is the framwork for ethical and moral living

5. look for the underlying principple and apply that

6. Christ fulfilled the Law

7. Is the law revoked in the NT or renewed and applied to followers of Jesus

8. Immediate literary context is the laws around it

9. Cultural context

How do we know when we're dealing with a difficult passage?

1. Read more quality translation

2. Ask more of your own questions

3. Ask your audience's questions

4. Use more resources

5. Research historical and cultural background

6. Analyze the grammer and stucture by making a diagram/chart

Gospels

What are the two types of context to be concerned about?

- Sitz Im Leben (situation in life)

-Literary

Name all the layers of both sets of concentric circles of context

Sitz im Leben/Literary

Literary circle

-Passage /Pericope

Chapter

section

book

other gospels

N.T.

The bible

Sitz Im Leben Circle

- Jesus' Intentions

Hearer's and observers

author of the gospel

origial leaders of the gospel

What is pericope?

The scene in the passage

(who, what, where, when, why, how)

1. Author : his intended purpose

2. who recieved the gospel originally?

3. who was present at the even?

4. what did Jesus probably intend to do?

- True Parables

- Similitudes (illustrations from daily life)

-Historical/literary context

-call for a response

-Parabolic sayings illustrate Jesus' teachings

-What's the stories function?

-Read through several times

-Find points of reference and experience it through the eyes of the character

-KoG (Kingdom of God)

-The kingdom is coming

-The kingdom is present

-KoG is also key for interpreting the gospels

1. what comes before the parable?

2. what comes after the parable?

3.who wa sjesus talking to?

4. what is the purpose of this book?

5. who was the intended audience?

6. what would Jesus' audience understand or be surprised by?

7. Word pictures

8. What kind of parable is this?

1. Stucture is governed by the poetic line, not paragraph or grammar

2. tightly - packed language

3. Tythm and sound impact the structure

4. concrete images portray abstract ideas

5. Language is mean to evoke emotion or experience

- Every line/ Pair = Phrase

-Couplets are equal or similar length

-2 accented syllables do not occur together

Sound

o    Based on rhythm not rhyme

·        

Structure

o    2 line structure (couplet)

·    

     Language

o    Using language patterns

Parallelism

What is a line called

Echo = A + B are interchangable

Explanation = A is explained by B

Completion = A introduces idea, B completes it

Point is the Center

A - B - C - B - A

A -B - C - C - B - A

Psalms

10 types: names and describe

1. Songs of Thanksgiving

2. Hymns

-Reflects God's glory

-Character

-Power in creation and in the development of Israel

3. Royal

-Psalm 2, 45, 110

-About Israel's king

4. Penitential

-Expressing sorrow for sin

5. Wisdom

-Observation on life

-Observation on what is generally true

-God is good but life is hard

6. Messianic

-Desctibe the Messiah

7.Imprecatory

-Ask for judgment against enemies

-Often angry and honest

-Leave the outcome in God's hands

8. Lament

-Mourning

-Statement of trust in God found in these Psalms

9. Trust

-Emphasis is on confidence in the Lord

-Some might have Lament but focus in on trust in God

10. Songs of Ascents

-Songs of degrees

-scholars don't quite understand what these mean

-Psalms sung in relation to heading to worship

1. Practical

2. Teach dependence on God

3. Teach fear of the Lord

4. Links daily life with the covenant and Law

5. Creation theology - God is just and in control

6. Living in close relationship with God: Blessing and bummers

Define Proverb

1. Not guarantees

2. Interpreted with application setting

3. western ideals

4. Ideal conditions may not exist

Other forms of wisdom lit

(need to recognize these)

-saying

-tiddle

-Admonition

-allegory

-hymns and prayers

-dialogue

-congessions

-beatitudes

- Don't regard every element in the OT as a type

- Look for consistency between OT and NT

1. recieving and communicating revelation from God

2. Reformation not innovation

3. Preserve and enforce the covenant

1. Covenant blessings and curses

2. Corporate

3. Context is key

4. Cooperative: Forth-telling (2/3)

and intentional for-telling

Fore-Shortening

Define and explain

1. We only know for sure about fulfillment after it happens

2.Don't assume that the way Paul interreted prophecy is the way we should

3.Address on section/oracle. Use commentaries to identify boundaries

4. Forth-telling

5. Fore-telling

6.Application: Look for similar particulars today

7. Apply corporate words corporately

-revelation

-Form or genre

-End times prophecy

1. Based on OT prophetic literature

2reveals somthing that had been hidden

3. invoves angels to some degree

4. started as aliterature, not oral pieces that were writeen down

5. presented as visions and dreams using cryptic and symbolic language

6.Symbolism is often less realistic than the symbols ussed by Jesus and OT prophets

7. Pseudonymous... sometimes writeen under a  false name

Unique characteristics of Revelation

- not pseudonymous

-prophetic: a word gor the church at the present time of persecution and decay

1. Figurative

-OT meaning is found in NT

-Church replaces Israel

2. Literal

-OT is valuable on it's own

-OT doesn't have as much info on some subjects as NT

-Keeping it in context means using the full bible

1. Treat like a difficult passage

2.Find original, intended meaning

3.Not that some elements have broader meanings for the future

4. follow customary usage of language

5. make Christ central in all interpretations

6. Be concious of context

7. Grand on interpretation to each passage

8. Choos the simplest alternative (when summarizing and concluding)

1. Words describing objects and things seen in a vision

2. Acts- Actions performed by the prophet to communicate a message

1. Items designated as symbols in the context or i its general use in prophecy

2. Elements which are completley impossible in the natural world

3. A prophecy that has symbols does not have to be interpreted in the world as symbolic

1. Objects may be literal but still have symbolic significance

2. Immediate context

3. Larger context: similar or parallel symbols in other passages

4. Numbers - Always literal

5. Be humble not hasty

- Does not ask for authors intent

-Rooted in historical or real world

-Imaginative

-not presenting recognizable people, events or places

-communicate abstract truth

-divorce between the real meaning and the spiritual meaning

-clear progressive storyline