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Types of writing in the Bible - Genres Why is it important to know what genre you're reading? - It impacts how we read and interpret what it says What is the first step of the Interpretive Journey? - Grasp the text in their town. What did the text mean to the original audience? What is the sec...

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Hermeneutics Final Exam Review Types of writing in the Bible - ✔✔ Genres Why is it important to know what genre you're reading? - ✔✔ It im pacts how we read and interpret what it says What is the first step of the Interpretive Journey? - ✔✔ Grasp the text in their town. What did the text mean to the original audience? What is the second step of the Interpretive Journey? - ✔✔ Measure the width of the river to cross. What are the differences between the biblical audience and us? What is the third step of the Interpretive Journey? - ✔✔ Cross the principlizing bridge. What i s the theological principle in this text? What is the fourth step of the Interpretive Journey? - ✔✔ Consult the biblical map. How does our theological principle fit with the rest of the Bible? What is the fifth step of the Interpretive Journey? - ✔✔ Grasp the text in our town. How should individual Christians today live out the theological principles? T of F?: Every character in OT narrative is a hero, a model for us to emulate. - ✔✔ F - We learn about who God is and what he requires of us. T of F?: Charac ter descriptions, their words, and their actions are important. - ✔✔ T T of F?: Story endings are not important. - ✔✔ F - Beginnings and endings are extremely important T of F?: Throughout most of the OT narrative literature, God is a central character. - ✔✔ T What genre comprises nearly half of the Old Testament? - ✔✔ Narrative T of F?: The OT is giving us much more than just the history of Israel; the purpose of these stories is theological. It is a theological history. - ✔✔ T - Biblical narrative is a the ological interpretation of the historical event. Why did God choose to reveal himself in story? - ✔✔ Good stories communicate and engage us in such a powerful way. Biblical stories are intended to stick in our memory causing us to think and reflect. Biblic al narratives struggle with the complexities of God and his plan for his people. T or F?: Plot is the organizing structure that ties narrative together. - ✔✔ T T or F?: The narrator always seems to express his opinion when we readers would like for him to remain neutral. - ✔✔ F - Quite the opposite T or F?: The Bible deals with real life and with real people. People are complex, and so are the great stories about them. - ✔✔ T T or F?: If our goal is to know God then it is imperative that we seek to hear what he is trying to tell us about himself in the narrative texts. - ✔✔ T T or F?: A large portion of the Pentateuch is comprised of laws. Indeed, there are over 600 commandment s in these books. - ✔✔ T - 613 to be exact Laws that deal with timeless truths regarding God's intention for human behavior. - ✔✔ Moral Laws Laws that describe aspects that we normally see in a country's legal system. - ✔✔ Civil Laws Laws that deal with sa crifices, festivals, and priestly activities. - ✔✔ Ceremonial Laws T or F?: According to the traditional system CEREMONIAL laws were universal and timeless. Civil and MORAL laws, however, applied to only ancient Israel and not to believers today. - ✔✔ F - Moral laws (properly interpreted) are applicable to us today What ANE biblical code is similar to the law codes in the Bible? - ✔✔ Code of Hammurabi The authors of GGW suggest an alternate approach to interpreting OT law. They submit that the interpreter m ust first observe that the law appears in a _____________ ______________. - ✔✔ Narrative Context The ______ _____________________ in Exodus 20 and the laws that follow in Exodus 21 -23 (Covenant Code) is textually tied into the story of God's encounter with Moses and Israel at Mt. Sinai. - ✔✔ Ten Commandments The book of Leviticus is painted on a ____________ canvas against the backdrop of the encounter with God at Mt. Sinai. The laws in Leviticus are presented as part of a ____________ between God and Moses . - ✔✔ Narrative; dialogue Central to the book of Numbers is Israel's rejection of the ____________ ____________. This disobedience results in the forty years of ____________ that the book recounts. - ✔✔ Promised Land; wandering Most of Deuteronomy is comp rised of a _________ _____ ___________ that Moses delivers to the Israelites on God's behalf. This ____________ ____________ occurs just prior to Israel's entry into the Promised Land. - ✔✔ Series of Speeches; Covenant Renewal T or F?: Not only do the authors of GGW suggest that the law appears in a narrative context, but they emphasize that God introduces the law in a covenant context. - ✔✔ T

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