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CLASS
NOTES - 15-MAY-00
Hermeneutics of the Bible
Important: These un-edited notes were taken during
the live class and are to be used only as resources. These are
not intended to replace your personal study of Scripture or the
course material.
"Never be so heavenly minded
that you are no earthly good."
Six Biblical sciences (on the
next quiz)
1. canonology (inspired books) deals with which books are inpired
of God
2. historical crticism - deals with the litary and documentary
character of the books (author, date ,where, to whom, etc.)
3. textual criticism (deals with the original wording, establishing
the orginal wording of the text by comparing it to the early
fathers
4. Hermeneutics - science of interpreting the scripture; understood
by the original readers
5. Exegisis (x-a Jesus)- applied hermeneutics; explains the interpretation
6. Biblical theology - logical result of the other sciences;
how we arrive at our doctrine
Hermeneutics
- comes form the Greek word "hermeneuo": to explain
or expound - Luke 24:27
- forms of this word can be found in our Bible
Biblical Hermeneutics
- the science of interpreting the Scriptures
- Nehemiah 8:8
? Given this scripture, how did they read? They read "distincively".
Then they gave "sense" - to interpret. They caused
them to understand the reading
- Distinctly = Observation
- Gave sense = Interpretation
- Understand the reading = Application
Why we need Hermeneutics
- Why has this science been derived?
Communication Gaps
1. Linguistic gap - deals with how God speaks to us through words.
- Jesus quoted the OT, "Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by..." Matthew 4:4
- The best thing would be for us to learn Greek, Hebrew, and
Latin to fully understand Hermeneutics
a. vocabulary - what words mean
1. etymology - word history (use Strong's, Young's Analytical
Concordance)
2. Comparative word study - occurences
3. cultural meaning of the word - cultural setting
4. cognate languages - equivalent words
b. Grammer - how words relate to each other
1. analytical language
a. word order
b. English & Hebrew
2. synthetic language
a. word ending
3. bad grammer
a.
c. genre - type of language
1. literary style (Psalms being a poemic style)
2. literary expressions
a. parable, allegory, psalm
3. figures of speech
2. Cultural Gap
- Understanding the manners and customs of that day
(Bible dictionary would assist)
Example: Jesus meets the women at the well during the 6th hour.
What time is that? Understand the culture of the time means that
the 6th hour was not 6 a.m. but noon time.
3. Geographical Gap
- Understand the geography
Example: Eye of the needle is a small gate used as a night door.Camels
did go through the door but had to go down and crawl on all fours
- any enemy that when through that door had to stop and get off
the camel in order to get through the door. The same with a rich
man, he would have to give up all his material things to get
down to the level he needed to be of in order to get into heaven.
4. Historical Gap
- 3600 years of difference from Genesis to today.
a. politcal climate
b. economic climate
c. religious climate
*Good book on this topic, "What the Bible is all about"
Extra Credit
10 points for reports turned in 5/22
Term Report format - 15 points (25 if handed in 5/22)
Write the text (verse in question)
1. First paragraph: your original interpretation of the text
before you studied
2. Write two outside sources as references
3. Write 2-3 paragraphs about hermeneutics of what you learned
(examined language, Greek, Gaps, etc.)
4. 2-3 paragraphs: Your conclusion. Save point of view for the
end.
Homework
- Book: pg. 1-61
Side notes:
*there is no original
Bible; ours is brought from the accumilation of different books.
Which books should have been included? Ultimately, if Jesus used
it, it's probably good for us. In the end, our Bible has been
taken from the general acceptance. The books like the Appacrafa
are more historical and not doctrinal.
*Dead Sea Scrolls affirm the text (Bible) that we have today
*Dead Sea Scrolls discovered by a boy in a cave. The scriptures
were stored within vases; were original copies of scripture in
Hebrew (these are the closes we have to the ORIGINAL scriptures).
*Dead Sea Scrolls probably still written 600-800 years after
the originals
*Because not one original writing of a NT book exists today,
we depend upon copies of the orignal text. The closes we have
is one designated "P-52" dated around 110-125 a.d.
Only contained a few verses of John.
*P-46 is thought to be the most earliest text. THought to contain
all of Pauls epitles (except the pastoral collection). Must have
been written 20-30 years after Paul wrote them.
Recommended Books
"spirit filled bible"
- KJV
"origin of the bible" by comfort
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