for sessions 3 (8 October)...

Please remember that we will not be meeting next Wednesday (1 October) because of the Study Skills intensive modular. Our next session will be on Wednesday 8 October.

Our next session will continue our look at the history of interpretation, as well as some further thoughts on the approach we will be advocating in this module. For the next session you will need to have read:

• Klein, Blomberg and Hubbard, ch. 2, pg. 45-62; and ch. 5 , 135-150.

Here are some questions for you to think about while you're reading. If may be helpful if you write down a few answers as you go along:

Chapter 2:

• What are some of the major shifts in interpretation between the Middle Ages and the era of the Reformation (45-47)?
• What role did Luther and Calvin play in some of these changes (47-49)?
• How did rationalism affect biblical interpretation in the post-Reformation period (51-52)?
• What is the historical-critical method of interpretation, and what impact did it make on biblical studies (52-55)?
• What changes began to happen in the post-World War I era (Karl Barth) and post-World War II era (biblical theology movement) (56-59)?
  

Chapter 5:

• What do the authors claim are the main qualifications needed to be a good interpreter of the biblical text (135-142)?
• What presuppositions about the Bible do they feel are helpful in interpretation (142-150)?
  
• Do you disagree with any of these claims?
  

For our next session you should also have selected the text you would like to focus on for your exegetical assignment from the list of passages from the Minor Prophets. If you have any questions on this, feel free to drop in and have a chat.

for session 2 (24 September)...

Well done surviving the first session! Hopefully it gave you some things to think about.

For our next session, you need to read Klein, Blomberg and Hubbard, chapter 1 and the first half of chapter 2, pg. 23-45.

Some questions for you to think about during your reading:

• How do the author, the text, and the reader all contibute to the meaning of a text (pg. 8-13)?
• What are Hellenistic Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism (25-31)?
• What were some of the main methods of interpretation used in the patristic period (pg. 34-40)?
  
• What were the 'four senses of Scripture' in the middle ages (42-45)?

Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Feel free to leave a note in the comments here, drop me an email, or drop into the office.

welcome!

This site will serve as a hub for the Hermeneutics module offered at CETC in the first semester of the 2008-09 academic year. We'll be posting reading assignments here, as well as reading questions you may want to use to help you follow along. And hopefully this will be a place for you to interact and leave comments as well on the subjects we're discussing.

To the right you'll find some links related to biblical interpretation that might be a good place to start.