Interpretation
Context
Content
Historical context
Literary context
Theological context
What do words mean?
Sentences, what are the dependent and independent clauses?
Paragraphs, and how they relate.
- History
- Geography
- Culture
- literary genre
- specific literary context
Narrative literature
Plot, Characterization, Key characters, Setting, and Point of view
Genres
Parable Genre
Simple analogy
Example story
Allegory analogy
New Testament Letter Genre
Opening
Body
Closing
Logical/ reasoning for letter
Significant Old Testament usage with a Christ Centered focus.
Occasional letters
Poetry
Didactic poetry (teaching, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes)
Dramatic Poetry (Job, Songs of Solomon)
Lyrical Poetry (Psalms)
Pictures: strong images
Parallels: Biblical poets use statements that come in two (Parallel)
Prophecy Genre
Three repeated themes in the prophets
- "You have broken the covenant, you had better repent."
- "No repentance? Then Judgement!
- "Yet, there is hope beyond the judgement for a glorious future restoration!"
Peaks in vallies
Signs and times of the temples destruction and of Christs return
Commands to perpetual vigilance
Judgement of nations via metaphor
Intro
Parables
Preterist: One peak, Old Testmanet
Preterist futurist: They see that Matthew is talking about the great tribulation, only one peak
Futurist: Two peaks, great tribulation and second coming
Old Testament Law Genre
Three basic approaches
Apodictic and Casuistic laws: Apodictic laws are direct commandments (10 commandments) and casuistic laws are case laws.
Old Testament laws: Civic, Ceremonial, and Moral
Principal approach to OT laws: distinguish content from form.
Linguistic content
Relationship among various thematic units or levels. Linguistic relationships between clauses, sentences, and higher-level linguistic units.
Dis- Course
Pericope
Sentence
Phrase- Clause
Word