exam 1

What, according to your instructor, is the #1 rule of interpretation that you should remember even if you forget every other thing that you learn in this course?

• Context

• • Time period and language

• • Holy Spirit is constantly at work and helps us interpret but we still have to study the bible to gain understanding

  
  

• • To plan interpretation. 

What is the significance of presuppositions in interpretation? What are the key presuppositions regarding text and interpreter that we hold as evangelicals?

• • They influence the way we see things. Has major impact on what you read Changes way you interpret scripture

    •  -important 

    • -good/bad 

    • -unavoidable 

    • -self evident 

• • Holy Spirit is constantly at work and helps us interpret but we still have to study the bible to gain understanding

• •  In the Doriani 

    • C- Context 

    • A- Analysis 

    • P-Problems 

    • T-Themes

    • O-Obligations 

    • R-Reflection 

• • reading over a passage vastly and not having a pre assumptions that we know the text already not allowing room to gain more knowledge

In what ways are we far removed from the biblical texts?

• • Time period and language

• • Holy Spirit is constantly at work and helps us interpret but we still have to study the bible to gain understanding

• • Antiochene used typology and not allegory while the Alexandrian school did.

• • reading over a passage vastly and not having a pre assumptions that we know the text already not allowing room to gain more knowledge

How is the Holy Spirit related to and important to hermeneutics? 

• • Holy Spirit is constantly at work and helps us interpret but we still have to study the bible to gain understanding

• To plan interpretation.

• • They influence the way we see things. Has major impact on what you read Changes way you interpret scripture

• • reading over a passage vastly and not having a pre assumptions that we know the text already not allowing room to gain more knowledge

Where do you find the CAPTOR acronym and what does it stand for? 

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  •  In the Doriani 

    • C- Context 

    • A- Analysis 

    • P-Problems 

    • T-Themes

    • O-Obligations 

    • R-Reflection 

• • They influence the way we see things. Has major impact on what you read Changes way you interpret scripture

    •  -important 

    • -good/bad 

    • -unavoidable 

    • -self evident 

• • reading over a passage vastly and not having a pre assumptions that we know the text already not allowing room to gain more knowledge

  
  

• • Observation precedes explanation. As explanation precedes make sure it fits your observations (Doriani).

Why does Captor exist? 

• • To plan interpretation. 

• • Observation precedes explanation. As explanation precedes make sure it fits your observations (Doriani).

• • reading over a passage vastly and not having a pre assumptions that we know the text already not allowing room to gain more knowledge

• • Antiochene used typology and not allegory while the Alexandrian school did.

What, according to Doriani, is the relationship between “explanation” and “observation”? 

• • Observation precedes explanation. As explanation precedes make sure it fits your observations (Doriani).

• • reading over a passage vastly and not having a pre assumptions that we know the text already not allowing room to gain more knowledge

• • Holy Spirit is constantly at work and helps us interpret but we still have to study the bible to gain understanding

• • Midrash Method 

According to Doriani, what things limit a person’s ability to observe a text accurately?

• • Antiochene used typology and not allegory while the Alexandrian school did.

• • A text can not mean what it never meant. There is one true meaning for a biblical text, and God originally intended it to mean what it meant when it was first spoke.

• • reading over a passage vastly and not having a pre assumptions that we know the text already not allowing room to gain more knowledge

• • Holy Spirit is constantly at work and helps us interpret but we still have to study the bible to gain understanding

What style of interpretation was practiced by the Jews at Qumran?

• •  Pesher Method

• • Midrash Method 

• • Allegorical Method

What style of interpretation was practiced By the Jewish Rabbis? 

• • Midrash Method 

• • Allegorical Method

• •  Pesher Method