Biblical Interpretations Old Quizzes

The Interpretive Journey assumes that meaning is present in the biblical text.

True

Which of the following is a barrier that separates the biblical audience from contemporary Christians?

Culture
Language
Situation
All of the Above

All of the Above

Which of the following does not occur during step one of the Interpretive Journey?

A careful reading of the text

Application

An analysis of key words

A scrutinizing of the grammar

Application

When studying a passage from the Old Testament, it is imperative to run your theological principle through which of the following grids?

Modern science

Behavioral psychology

New Testament

Modern political theory

New Testament

 Which of the following terms best identifies the final step of the Interpretive Journey?

Meaning

Application

Principle

Differences

Application

According to Chapter 3 of the text book, what of the following items should we look for in sentences as part of observing the biblical text?

Multiple Answer Question

Repetition of words

Capital Letters

Questions

Contrasts

Lists

Emotional Terms

Cause and Effect

Verbs

Means

Repetition of Words

Contrasts

Lists

Cause and Effect

Verbs

Which of the following are things to look for in a paragraph according to chapter 4 of the textbook?

Multiple Answer Question

General and Specific

Prophecy

History

Tone

Conditional Clauses

Author's name

Purpose/Result Statements

Truth

Wisdom

Emotional Terms

General and Specific

Tone

Conditional Clauses

Purpose/Result Statements

Emotional Terms

A _______________ is a unit of connected text that is longer than paragraphs.

Multiple Choice Question

chapter

book

discourse

sentence

Discourse

It is not important to discover how your paragraph or episode relates to other paragraphs and episodes that come before and after it.

False

A _____________ are critical places where a story takes a new turn.

Multiple Choice Question

conclusion

major break or a pivot 

introduction

reference

Major Break or Pivot

A chiasm is a list of items, ideas, or events structured in such a manner that the first item parallels the last item, the second item parallels the next to the last item, and so forth.

True

An inclusio is a literary technique in which a passage has contrasting words, statements, events or themes at the beginning and at the end.

False

Since God spoke His message in specific, historical situations, we should take the ancient historical-cultural situation seriously.

True

Knowing something about the circumstances of the biblical audience of the Old Testament prophets would help a person understand the prophet’s message.

True

Knowing the geography, social customs, economic issues, or political issues involved in a passage will never be helpful.

False

You should never worry about inaccurate background information when you study the historical-cultural context.

False

Which of the following is a tool (resource) used for identifying historical-cultural context.

Multiple Choice Question

Devotionals

Bible Atlases

Math Books

Baptist Hymnal

Bible Atlases

Our ___________________ refers to all our preconceived notions and understandings that we bring to the text, which have been formulated, both consciously and subconsciously, before we actually study the text in detail.

Multiple Choice Question

Foundational Beliefs

Genre

Preunderstanding

Preunderstanding

Which of the following is a dangerous aspect of our preunderstanding?

coming to the text with a theological agenda already formed

unfamiliarity with a passage

no influences from our culture

correct understanding of a passage

Coming to the text with a theological agenda already formed

The automatic transportation of the biblical text into our cultural world is called “masquerading.”

False

Which of the following is a foundational belief that evangelical Christians generally hold (more than one answer):

Multiple Answer Question

The Bible is untrustworthy and false.

The Bible is the Word of God.

God never enters human history.

The Bible is unified.

The Bible is the word of God

The Bible is unified

 ___________________________ simply refers to the different categories or types of literature found in the Bible.

Multiple Choice Question

Game

Literary Genre

Books

Context

Literary Genre

Literary genre acts as a kind of covenant communication, a fixed agreement between author and reader about how to communicate.

True

____________________________simply refers to the texts that surround the passage you are studying.

Multiple Choice Question

Reflux

Surrounding Context

Preaching

Modeling

Surrounding Context

When you honor the literary context, you cannot make the Bible say just anything.

True

When it comes to literary context, our main goal is to identify how an author's thought flows only through small sections of a passage.

False

As readers we do not determine the meaning of biblical words; rather, we try to discover what the biblical writer meant when he used a particular word.

True

Which of the following are common Word Study Fallacies (more than one answer)?

Multiple Answer Question

Overload Fallacy

Utopian Fallacy

Biblical Fallacy

Root Fallacy

Overload Fallacy

Root Fallacy

____________________________ refers to all the possible meanings of a word.

Multiple Choice Question

Concordance

Semantic Range

Single Meaning

True Meaning

Semantic Range

Context determines word meaning

True

If you, the reader, see the text as a communication between the author and yourself, then you should search for the meaning that the author intended.

True

According to the text book, when we as readers come to the Bible, we must create meaning.

False

Author

Both the human and divine conveyor of the text

Application

This is what the reader does with meaning. The response of the reader to the meaning of the text

Meaning

That which the author wished to convey with his signs

Bible Codes

The idea that the bible has secrets encoded into it. Typically this consists of Gematria and Equidistant Letter Sequencing

Literary Meaning

The meaning the authors have placed in the text

Spiritualizng

Discovering deep, secret meanings in the text of the Bible that the author never intendedTy

Typology

Things or items in the Old Testament that points to or foreshadow what Christ ultimately fulfills in the New Testament

The _____ _________ approach tries to stay as close as possible to the structure and words of the source language.

Multiple Choice Question

more formal

more functional

more formal

The _____ _________ approach tries to express the meaning of the original text in today’s language.

more formal

more functional

more functional