This article discusses some principles on how to interpret the Bible. It calls for being aware of historical or cultural background matters, attentiveness to context, and reading the Bible with other believers.
It is important to acknowledge the literary features of Scripture for a good understanding. This article argues that too often biblical scholarship has ignored its literary character in exegesis. The authors want to illustrate how consideration of the literary character of a book can solve difficult exegetical problems, and illustrate this from their exegesis of Nahum.
The author wants to demonstrate the value of critical exegetical tools, in particular redaction criticism, for the task of preaching. The paper makes use of Mark 9:14-29 as a test case to illustrate how preaching from the gospels should function.
How do you determine the meaning of a text? When doing biblical interpretation, there are four rules to keep in mind.
This article makes a case for sola scriptura by showing how Scripture is the beginning, middle, and end of ministry. This doctrine determines whether one's ministry is effective or not, since it determines our hermeneutics—how we study the Bible.
This article looks at the relationship between logic and Scripture. Specifically, it shows the role of logic in reading and interpreting Scripture.
Every Christian has the desire to apply God's Word to his life. There is one rule that we all need to obey for the application of Scripture: what did it mean for the original audience? The article explains why this is important.
Knowing the meanings of words is important for Bible reading. How do you determine what words mean? This article argues that the meaning of words lies in how they are used. It gives eight steps for doing word studies for biblical interpretation.
Hermeneutics is the science and art of understanding and explaining the meaning of the biblical text. This article gives seven principles to consider for Bible interpretation.
Key to Bible reading and interpretation is being able to ask the right questions. This article looks at five questions you can ask in your Bible reading to understand its message.
This document contains course material used as an introduction to the methods and tools for New Testament exegesis. It introduces students to a number of hermeneutical issues related to interpreting the New Testament. The focus of this course is on the basic steps in the exegesis of the New Testament.
The Introduction encourages readers to think about the nature and value of biblical exposition. It provides answers to three basic questions about biblical exposition: What?, Why?, and Where?
This article works with the assumption that there is a structure in Matthew's composition. It further emphasizes that discerning the overall literary structure involves identifying smaller literary components that make up larger sections of the Gospel and give them their overall themes. McClister wants to examine Matthew 17:22-Matthew 20:19 as such a unit to determine the meaning of the text.
What is discourse analysis and what is its relevance for New Testament exegesis? Reed wants to define the most important characteristics of discourse analysis based on the writings of its leading linguistic proponents, and he sets forth a research agenda for future applications of discourse analysis to the New Testament.
What is the globalization of hermeneutics? According to Blomberg there are five topics that consistently recur with greater frequency than any others in biblical studies: liberation theology, feminism, economics, religious pluralism, and the contextualization of the gospel.
What is discourse criticism? This paper considers human communication and language through texts. It focuses on communication that takes place above the sentence level and how it can help in the analysis of biblical texts.
This paper tries to put down the basic terms for the functioning of redaction criticism as an exegetical tool for New Testament exegesis. The author uses Matthew 10 as a test case.
No outline can ever be a substitute for the reading of the Gospel of Mark. At most, it is an attempt to offer guidance about the significant divisions, turning points, interconnections, and developments in the narrative/story. Williams argues in this article for an overall outline or map of Mark’s Gospel. He wants to takes seriously the narrative shape of Mark. He pays close attention to narrative features such as character, setting, and plot.
This essay wants to demonstrate how a literary-narrative study of Mark's use of miracle material might give insight into how Mark crafted the story he has given to us.
The volume is a study of hermeneutics. In Chapter 1 the foundation is laid for a proper understanding of the task of interpretation of Scripture by spelling out the presuppositions of responsible interpretation.
This article wants to test the text-critical convention of preferring shorter text readings above the longer by investigating the textual witness of Ezekiel 1.
Hamilton argues that the centre in Biblical Theology is God, who is both merciful and just. The central theme of Scripture, according to Hamilton, is the glory of God in salvation through judgment. In Chapter 1 he first considers whether there is a centre in Scripture that holds everything in Scripture together.
This article presents the essential features of a type, doing so by rooting typology in the presuppositions of biblical theology and in Scripture. This helps to reveal much about how the New Testament authors conceived of the nature of types.
