Semester 1 Adv. Lit Analysis Final

Inspiration

What is the presupposition of this course?

False

\n T/F: The way that inspiration always worked was that God dictated the Bible word-for-word to the biblical writers.

False

T/F: The phrase "verbal plenary" means that only ideas contained in the Bible are inspired, not the individual words.

What is an autograph?

an original copy of a biblical book

Clear

When using the word “perspicuity” about the Bible, we mean that the Bible is basically ___________.

Hermeneutics

The scientific art of interpreting written documents

False

**T/F: Since the Bible is basically clear, we really don’t need to waste our time w/ hermeneutics.**

True

T/F: We need to understand the Bible in order to grow in our relationship w/ God.

Lessen the divisions in the Church

What is one thing \[mentioned in class\] that interpreting the Bible properly should do for us?

Because we are not divinely inspired

Even if the New Testament does misinterpret the Old Testament, why shouldn’t we do the same?

halakhah

What is the term used in the rabbinic tradition for rules on how to live?

peshat

What was the term given by the rabbis for finding the plain sense of the biblical text?

Alexandrian

Which patristic school of interpretation heavily used allegory/allegorical interpretation?

quadriga

What was the term given to the majority viewpoint during the medieval time period?

Nicholas de Lyra

Who was the representative of the majority viewpoint during the medieval period who argued for literal interpretation?

False

T/F: The reformed tradition from Calvin and Luther sought to find multiple meanings in the biblical text

Karl Barth

What name should you connect to the idea of Neo-orthodoxy?

True

T/F: Covenant Theology & Dispensational Theology differ on how to interpret the unfilled prophecies to Israel.

False

T/F: In summary, people have tended to interpret the Bible similarly through the centuries.

literality & context

What are the two principles of hermeneutics?

True

T/F: This unit started w/ the presupposition that people only intend to be understood one way.

the author’s one intended meaning

What is the principle of literality?

usus loquendi

way of speaking/use of language at a particular time or place

look for what he selects

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look for what he emphasizes (by repetition)

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look for how he organizes or arranges his material

How do you find the author’s purpose when he doesn’t explicitly state it?

sensus plenior

finding further meanings in the text

True

T/F: When people interpret a text properly, they should all come up w/ the same meaning.

virtually infinite amounts

How many applications can be derived from a single text?

real communication would be impossible

if we didn’t assume that people only intend to be understood one way…

Context of the Book, Context of the Bible, Immediate Context.

Name the levels of Context in order

True

T/F: A key reason to take account of the content of the book is to discern the author’s purpose.

a Bible survey

Which type of book would be helpful in dealing w/ context of the book

False

T/F: In doing context of the whole Bible, teaching passages should be interpreted in light of narrative passages.

a good grasp of biblical content

the prerequisite for doing context of the entire Bible?

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What resource would be very helpful for finding context of the whole Bible?

True

T/F: Some books in the Bible have virtually no (immediate) context.

False

T/F: In interpreting the Bible, we do not need to allow for Progressive Revelation or Progress of Doctrine.

doctrinal

ethical

factual

Name 3 types of alleged contradictions in the Bible

True

T/F: In dealing w/ alleged contradictions, we need to allow for approximations and everyday language.

The Grammatical-Historical Method

interpreting based on the use of language and the facts of history.

category of literature

Define “genre”

a letter

epistle

a passion narrative w/ an extended introduction

Gospel

False

T/F: Poetry is not very common in the Old Testament.

False

T/F: The main characteristic of Hebrew poetry is rhyming.

antithetic

What type of parallelism is found in “for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish”?

Wisdom

Job’s genre

Tanak

What is the acronym given to the three sections of the Old Testament in the Jewish arrangement?

True

T/F: Beside meaning “Law”, the term Torah can also indicate “instruction”.

Former Prophets

To what section of the Hebrew arrangement of the Old Testament do the books of Joshua through 2 Kings belong?

True

**T/F: Hebrews thru Jude are sometimes called the “Catholic” or “General” epistles.**

Apocalyptic

What genre is designed to encourage the godly who are being persecuted?

True

T/F: The ultimate goal of analyzing structure is to develop an outline.

Structural clues

What was the first way we discussed to discern the structure of a book?

change in tense

NOT a structural clue?

Daniel

What book was our example of a change in language?

True

T/F: Each column in a series of repeated phrases becomes a point in an outline.

paragraph summaries

What was the other major way to find structure that we discussed?

group-related items

What’s the first step in creating an outline from paragraph summaries?

True

T/F: Charting is a way to display the structure of a book graphically.

Syntax

study of how words phrases and clauses are related together in a sentence

find the core of the sentence

What is the first goal in analyzing syntax?

True

T/F: The word “although” starts a subordinate clause.

subject, verb, object

What elements are in the core of a sentence?

True

T/F: Prepositions always take an object

the core

What goes on the main line of the diagram of a sentence?

paraphrase each sentence core

What’s the first step in outlining based on sentence diagrams?

True

Studying biblical languages helps us understand the way they thought.

verb-oriented

Hebrew is ________________ and so is suited for describing action.

True

T/F: The imperfect state of the Hebrew verb is usually translated as future tense.

and

what word is used frequently in Hebrew

verb

What is normally the first element in a Hebrew sentence?

noun

Greek is ____ oriented

antecedent

When you find a pronoun, your first job as an interpreter is to find the

kind of action

Besides time of action, Greek verbs more importantly focus on ___________.

True

T/F: The mood of the Greek verb indicates the relation between the action and reality.

Lexicography

the study of words and their meanings

Etymology

studying words based upon their roots

word meanings change; we’re not experts in etymology

 major problem in finding the meaning of a word is that

a word used only once

Hapax Legomena

Context

**Usage is a better way to find the meaning of a word. Usage is basically a variation of ____________.**

lexicon

What kind of book is basically a foreign language dictionary?

a theological dictionary

Which type of book discusses the meaning of a word AT LENGTH?

a concordance

Which type of book lists the places where a word occurs in the Bible?

True

T/F: In doing a word study, you should consult a concordance before looking at a lexicon.

ancient cultures

Archaeology is the study of _________ ___________ by means of their material remains.

it gives information on history & culture

Why study archaeology?

stratigraphy; typology

Name the two principles of Archaeology

typology

Which of the archaeological principles would provide more absolute dating?

pottery

Which method of dating is the most important for biblical archaeology?

True

T/F: The various methods of dating should be used in conjunction w/ each other, not separately.

a tell

In locating a site to excavate, what should the archaeologist look for?

historical reconstruction

What’s the final step in the archaeological process mentioned in class?

you can’t redig it

In what way is archaeology destructive?

organic

What type of artifacts normally won’t survive?

True

T/F: Ancient historians often slant the truth to make their ruler look good.

Copper

what was the main material used for implements during the Chalcolithic Age?

the Bronze Age

The patriarchs lived during what archaeological period

True

T/F: After the Iron Age, archaeological periods were named for the leading political power of the time.

morality 

Besides monotheism, how else was biblical culture different than the general culture of the time?

The Exodus

**Which event is not part of Primeval History?**