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What are the three main types of parallelism in biblical poetry?
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1.Synonymous Parallelism
2. Antithetical Parallelism 3.Synthetic Parallelism |
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Define the types of parallelism and give an example of each of the three types.
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1.Synonymous Parallelism: second line expresses a thought that is similar to the first with little or no added meaning. Psalm 2:2-4
2. Antithetical Parallelism: Second line contrasts with the first. Matthew 23:12 3.Synthetic: adds ideas to the first line.Psalm 1:3 |
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What is an idiom?
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is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself
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Give 2 biblical examples of a metaphor.
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Psalm 3:3
Matthew 5:13 |
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Give 2 biblical examples of a simile.
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Psalm 1
Proverbs1:27 |
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How does Dr. Stein (in his book) understand the love-hate imagery of the Bible such as in Gen
29:30-31 and Romans 9:13? |
What is in view is God's sovereign choice of one over another. To be "loved less" by God implies rejection.
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Explain how to ascertain what an idiom is, and how does one interpret an idiom?
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Clues to know what it is:
- same combination of words found frequently elsewhere - cannot be interpreted in the present context |
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How does one know the difference between narrative/prose and poetry?
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Poetry uses commissive language.
Prose uses referential language. |
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Is a poetic retelling of an event less historically accurate than a narrative/prose retelling of an
event? |
? Answer is in the poetry.
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What is a figure of speech?
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an expression that uses language in a non-literal way in order to achieve a rhetorical effect.
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How do we determine if a statement is hyperbolic? There are 10 clues. Be ready to list most
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1. The statement is literally impossible.
2. statement conflicts with what the speaker says elsewhere. 3." " actions of the speaker elsewhere. 4. " " teachings of the Old Testament. 5. " " New Testament 6. interpreted by another biblical writer in a non-biblical way. 7. Statement has not been totally fuflilled. 8. The statemnt would not achieve it's desired goal. 9.uses a literary from prone to exaggeration. |
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What topics do Jesus’ parables typically center on?
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Old Testament wisdom teaching.
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What are the two parts of a parable?
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picture part, reality part
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What are the two purposes of parables? (One purpose given in Matthew, one purpose given
in Mark). Explain. |
they have a dual purpose of revealing and concealing.
Jesus intended to hide the truth from unresponsive hearers. Parables confirmed unbelievers in their rejection of Jesus. Mark of God's judgment on them. |
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What are the characteristics of parables?
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Earthiness
Concisness Major and Minor points Repetition Conclusion at the End |
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What do we mean by “reversal of expectation” when reading parables? Explain your answer.
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this was a type of parable that would have been provocative to his listeners and would have forced them to consider the deeper implications of the parable.
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What are the 4 basic principles for interpreting parables?
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Look for the main point of the parable.
Seek to Understand Jesus' teaching. Seek to understand the evangelist's meaning. Seek the implications and significance of the parable. |
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What are the 4 guidelines for arriving at the main point of a parable?
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Who are the main characters?
What occurs at the end? What occurs in direct discourse? Whoor what gets the most space? |
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Regarding the historicity of biblical narrative, what was the view of the “rationalists,”
“supernaturalists,” “ accommodationists,” and “mythicists” in the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment period? |
Rationalist: appeals more to reason, does not see, for example, a story containing a miracle that the miracle actually happened but that there's a lesson to be learned from it.
Supernaturalist: Focuses more on the event then the authors intended meaning. accomodationist: said the evangelist created moral stories that he knew where fictional and acconmodated them to the mythical. Mythicists- author was just being honest, didn't know any better. the yearnings of the author have something to teach. |
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What are the five principles for interpreting biblical narrative?
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context
authorial comments repetition authoritative speakers dialogue or direct discourse |
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What is an “authorial comment” in biblical narrative? Give 2 examples and explain why
they are important. |
- when the author intrudes into their account to give clues to how their readers should interpret narratives.
Ex: 2 Chron 33:2-8 1 Kings 22:43 Important so that we don't come to our own conclusion |
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When speaking of biblical narrative, what is context and why is it so important in
interpretation of, for example, a particular section in the Gospel of Mark? |
context: the willed meaning that the author gives to the literary materials surrounding his text.
a particluar chapter in Mark is only one piece of the book and he expects us to read the whole to understand one piece. |
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Be ready to identify which type of parallelism is present in several examples. For example,
there will be a verse from Psalms or Proverbs, and you will have to tell me which kind of parallelism it is |
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1.Be able to answer a question about the KJV vs. a modern translation
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1.Text criticism – what is it? Why is it important?
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is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts.
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1.Why do we argue for a hermeneutic of authorial intent?
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1.The role of the Holy Spirit in the interpretive process
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Has inspiration over the human authors of scripture.
Has inspiration over the writings themselves. He oversaw the formation of the New Testament Canon. Interpretation- a person can understand (words and ideas) scripture, but will not, apart from the Holy Spirit, positively respond to it. |
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1.Know the rules for prophecy and some of the examples that we discussed in class.
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a prophet was called to reform, not innovate.
To preserve tradition. To enforce the covenant and law. Nature of a Prophetic message is Reception of the Message Forms of the message forthtelling rather than foretelling |
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1.How do you interpret imprecatory psalms? Psalms of lament? What are the characteristics of the psalms that we discussed in class?
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1.Tell me about covenants in the ancient near east, as well as their structure and components.
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There were two kinds:
Parity- made between two equals suzerain- not between 2 equals often have a certain form: preamble historical prologue stipulations provision for continual reading of covenant list of witnesses blessings and curses oath |
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1.Where in the Bible is there a historical narrative followed by a poetic retelling of the same event? Is the poetic retelling less historical than the narrative account?
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1.In what ways did a prophet receive the divine word from the Lord? Give examples.
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A. Supernatural revelatory experience such as Isaiah (6:1-13)
or A transfer of authority and power like Elijah and Elisha |
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1.What are 4 forms of the prophetic message, and what are the three things that we should note when we interpret prophetic literature?
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1.Explain the five principles for interpreting narrative.
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Context
Authorial Comments Repetition Authoritative Spreakers Dialogue or Direct Discourse |
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What are the three different kinds of epistles we know of from New Testament times? Give
a possible example of each type from the New Testament that we discussed in class. |
-Private Letter
-Public Letter -The Treatise |
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Did the apostles write with a consciousness of apostolic authority? If so, how do we know
this? Give evidence for (or against) this from the New Testament. |
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What are the 5 structural parts of a typical epistle?
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-Salutation
-Thanksgiving/Prayer -Body -Exhortation and Instruction -Conclusion |
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Explain why it would be important to know these five parts when preparing a Bible study or
sermon. |
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Which NT epistle writers do we know used an amanuensis? Give Scriptural support.
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Paul used an amanuensis.
amanuensis usually introduce themselves, like Tertuis in Romans, or Paul will introduce them in his writing. |
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Does the usage of a scribe or amanuensis alter our view of inspiration? Authority? Inerrancy?
Authenticity? Explain your answer. |
No, because authors were fully responsible for their contents and would at times add comments.
Letters never went out without their authentication. Holy Spirit fully superintended process of producing books.. |
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On what basis do we reject the idea the NT epistles were pseudonymous? What are the
arguments for or against? |
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What are the principles for interpreting the NT epistles?
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-Study logical development of the argument.
-study the situation behind statement. -note the different subgeneres employed in the Epistles |
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What is “lexical-syntactic analysis,” and why is it essential for the interpretation of the
epistles? What are the steps that Virkler lists? |
the study of meaning of individual words and the way they are combined together with one another. they only have one intended meaning in any given context.
steps: -Identify literary form -Identify theme and how it fits into conext. -Identify natural divisions of the text. -Identify the connecting words. -Analyze the syntax. -put the results of your analysis into easily understood words |
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What are three things to note when interpreting prophecy?
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Observe the historical circumstance that the prophet was addressing.
How the prophecy will be fulfilled. Remember that the fulfillment of judgment prophecy is often conditional. |