Lecture Question Module #8 Joseph Workman
1. Explain Biblical Context and give and example. We will expand on this later.
2. Explain the 3 different kinds of study of words. Give some examples.
3. Explain the use of "figures of speech" in the Bible. Give examples.
Concerning Biblical Context, I like what the book says on pg. 139: “We can understand a particular passage only if we know what the whole Scripture teachers; but we can only know what the whole Scripture teaches by knowing the meaning of its parts.” We have to know all of Scripture to understand one verse, but the only way I can know all of scripture is to know the parts that make it up. This means that I must always line up the interpretation of one passage with all of Scripture. Scripture is the first context, the Old or New Testament is another context. Each is diverse. I can’t approach the New Testament with the same mindset as the Old. The book is also context for scripture. “The interpreter must understand the “Galatia heresy” was all about to properly interpret passages in Galatians. When interpreting a Scripture in context, I must also observe the scripture preceding and following it. Observe the scripture preceding and following a passage will allow for good framework so that the passage will be understood.
There are three cases in which a word is studied. The first is studying a word to see how it was formed over time. I like this because I like to use a crazy vocabulary. I know that the terms, “sweet” or “sick” or “insane”… haven’t been common ways to say that something is “cool” for to long. And even like the book commented that the term “cool” 100 years ago was just used for temperature.
The second way to study a word is compare it to the same word used in different passages to see if the meaning is the same. Also this way would include using synonyms or words that have the same meaning.
I believe that studying the word culturally can be the most beneficial considering that the Scripture was written in time where culture and life was totally different than what we experience today.
Concerning the use of figures of speech in the Bible, it is where the author expresses himself in and unordinary way. Metaphors, hyperboles, similes are all ways to express oneself in a literary content that adds some spice. I liked the example used for hyperbole, “But there are also many other things which Jesus did were every one of them to be written I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written,” John 21:25.
2. Explain the 3 different kinds of study of words. Give some examples.
3. Explain the use of "figures of speech" in the Bible. Give examples.
Concerning Biblical Context, I like what the book says on pg. 139: “We can understand a particular passage only if we know what the whole Scripture teachers; but we can only know what the whole Scripture teaches by knowing the meaning of its parts.” We have to know all of Scripture to understand one verse, but the only way I can know all of scripture is to know the parts that make it up. This means that I must always line up the interpretation of one passage with all of Scripture. Scripture is the first context, the Old or New Testament is another context. Each is diverse. I can’t approach the New Testament with the same mindset as the Old. The book is also context for scripture. “The interpreter must understand the “Galatia heresy” was all about to properly interpret passages in Galatians. When interpreting a Scripture in context, I must also observe the scripture preceding and following it. Observe the scripture preceding and following a passage will allow for good framework so that the passage will be understood.
There are three cases in which a word is studied. The first is studying a word to see how it was formed over time. I like this because I like to use a crazy vocabulary. I know that the terms, “sweet” or “sick” or “insane”… haven’t been common ways to say that something is “cool” for to long. And even like the book commented that the term “cool” 100 years ago was just used for temperature.
The second way to study a word is compare it to the same word used in different passages to see if the meaning is the same. Also this way would include using synonyms or words that have the same meaning.
I believe that studying the word culturally can be the most beneficial considering that the Scripture was written in time where culture and life was totally different than what we experience today.
Concerning the use of figures of speech in the Bible, it is where the author expresses himself in and unordinary way. Metaphors, hyperboles, similes are all ways to express oneself in a literary content that adds some spice. I liked the example used for hyperbole, “But there are also many other things which Jesus did were every one of them to be written I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written,” John 21:25.
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