EXEGETICAL BIBLE STUDY METHOD part 1

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EXEGETICAL BIBLE STUDY METHOD(part 1)

• Dr. Joy Moore
• Wednesday Word and Worship
• CECF
• September 24, 2008

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EXEGESIS

• critical explanation or interpretation of a text
  or portion of a text, especially of the Bible
• exposition (to expose or uncover)
• to guide, lead, or draw out
  
  

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CRITICAL

• Characterized by careful, exact evaluation and
  judgment
• Involving skillful judgment of the truth or merit
  of a matter
• A search for truth

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THE BIBLE

• FACTS

• TRUTH

• Many writers
• Many languages, translations, and interpretations
• Written over 2000 years ago (outdated)

• One AUTHOR 2 Timothy 316
• STUDY 2 Timothy 215
• God is ETERNAL
• Ecclesiastes 14, 9
• Isaiah 469,10
• Hebrews 138

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CONTEXT

• the set of circumstances or facts that surround a
  particular event or situation
• the part of a text or statement that surrounds a
  particular word or passage and determines its
  meaning

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CONTEXT

• the part or parts of something written or
  printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow
  a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately
  associated with it as to throw light upon its
  meaning

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Types of Contexts

• Literary
• Genre
• Historical
• Cultural
• Social
• Political
• Economical

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LITERARY CONTEXT

• Grammatical in nature
• Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
• Definitions
• Standard dictionary
• Biblical dictionary
• Hebrew, Greek dictionary

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GENRE CONTEXT

• How the type of genre shows you the significance
  and implication of the general overview?
• How does the type of genre contribute to possible
  meanings of specific words and then the point of
  the passage? (literal or figurative, symbolic)

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Poetry

• Prose and rhyme books
• Psalms, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations
• Hebrew poetry
• synonymous parallelism
• antithetic parallelism
• synthetic parallelism

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Poetry

• Synonymous parallelism - The very same thought is
  repeated, at times in the very same words
• O give thanks unto the LORD for he is good
  because his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm
  1181-4, 29
• Psalm 136

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Poetry

• antithetic parallelism - contrasting stanzas
• The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright
  but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
  Proverbs 152

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Poetry

• synthetic parallelism - The theme is worked up by
  the building of thought upon similar thought
• Know ye that the LORD He is God
• it is He that hath made us, and not we
  ourselves
• we are His people, and the sheep of His
  pasture. Psalm 1003

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Romance

• Love stories, narrative
• Ruth, Song of Solomon
• The Bible addresses EVERY aspect of our lives,
  including God-given sexual desire and the
  physical expression of Godly love, within the
  CONTEXT of marriage.

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Wisdom

• Maxims and sayings
• Questions about the meaning of life (Job,
  Ecclesiastes)
• Practical living and common sense (Proverbs and
  some Psalms)
• Contrasts our faulty human wisdom to Gods
  reasoning perfection
• Warns us of our evil nature and desires

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Parables

• The sayings of Jesus told in a short story or
  illustration form that are narrative and
  instructional
• Found in the Gospels
• Natural understanding to reveal a spiritual truth
  
• Everyday life examples
• Had a deeper purpose than the face value of the
  illustration, thus it took some thinking and a
  desire to learn in order to understand them

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Apocalyptic

• Combinations of narrative and prose written in
  vivid imagery and poetic phrases
• Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, and
  Revelation
• A more specific form of prophecy
• Not yet fulfilled. Hence, we may not know the
  meanings now, but time will flush it out.