The 3 parts of the Abrahamic Covenant
- Great (Promised) Land
- Great Seed/Nation
- Great Blessing
The 8-part Outline for Genesis
- Creation
- The Fall
- Flood
- Nations/Tower of Babel
- Abraham
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Joseph
Which prophets were exilic and post exilic
- Exilic
- Daniel
- Ezekiel
- Post-Exilic
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
The reason that God gave Abraham that Israel was going to go into slavery for 400 years rather than entering in the promised land. (Hint: Because the Wickedness of the…..)
Because the Wickedness of the Amorites
Why Israel wandered for 40 years
- 1 year for every day they spied on the land
- At the end, all men of fighting age must die off.
If Israel was conquering the other nations because they were more righteous than the other nations.
False. Because of the unrighteousness of the other nations.
The Definitions of:
Progressive Revelation
God's progressively unfolding plan of salvation.
Salvation History
God's plan of redemption for all nations which progressively unfolds through time and History.
Semantic Range
The range of meaning for a text as the author intended it.
Know the types of fulfillment
- Prediction-Fulfillment
- Promise/Covenant-Fullfilment
- Prefiguration/Typological-Fullfilment
Know the characteristics of the People groups and the people groups chart
Religious Groups
Sadducees-
- Believed that only the first five Books of the OT were authoritative.
- Did not believe that God still performed miracles or that man would be raised from the dead.
- Were influential because they had control of the Jewish temple.
- Were disbanded after the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.
Pharisees-
- Believed the whole OT was authoritative
- Applied OT Law to changing circumstances of daily life.
- Believed that God still Performed Miracles
Essenes-
- 4000 people
- Withdrew from society (Communal Living)
- Thought that the Pharisees and Sadducees were corrupt, so they did not offer sacrifices at the temple.
- Helped to preserve the scripture by copying it.
What were the 8 things that the Jews were looking for at the time of Jesus (list the scripture references too)
- Messiah/ Davidic King (Jer. 33:14-21; Micah 5:2)
- A Prophet like Moses (Deut. 18:15-19)
- A New Exodus (Jer. 16:14-15)
- A New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
- The coming of Elijah (Mal. 4:4-6)
- God to come to his temple (Mal 3:1)
- For God to pour his Spirit on all flesh (Joel 2)
- For all Nations to worship on God's Holy mountain (Isaiah 56:7-8)
The goal of good interpretation
The goal is not originality, but getting to the “plain meaning of the text.”
The 3 types of Context
- Historical Context
Considers the time and culture of the author and his readers, (geographical, topographical, and political factors that are relevant to the author’s setting and the occasion and purpose of its writing).
- Literary Context
Considers the Genre and literary devices that the author uses and a passage’s meaning inside the paragraph, chapter, and book that it is in.
- Theological Context
Considers how a verse fits within the author’s own theology (as evidenced by his other writings and the rest of scripture).
The 3 Guidelines for interpretation
- Strive to uncover the meaning of a passage based on the author's intended meaning for his or her originial audience
- Usage Determines meaning: in order to uncover the precise meaning of a text, we must take care to study the text's full range
- Passages derive their meaning from the context in which they are written.
The 3 approaches to translation
- Use several translations
- note where they differ
- check out these differences in another source
Types
- Formal Equivalence (Literal): Keeping the original words, word order, grammar, etc.
- Functional Equivalence: Keeping the meaning of the original language, but putting their words and sayings into what would be normally understood today.
- Mediating: seeks to strike a balance between a formal and functional equivalence approach.
- Paraphrase: Paraphrasing from something already translated in order to make it more easily understood.