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By: VALB (16 month(s) ago)

By: jam51 By; VALENTINE BROWN. PRESUPPOSITION; When Eve was in conversation with the serpent, all along i thought Adam was elsewhere in the garden , but in GEN.3:16,9( she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate).God explicitly gave Adam the command in ch.2:16-17

By: jamdown (16 month(s) ago)

By: eustacebrown. Comment:The eating of the fruit so damaged the human's character and interigity in the sight of God, that soon after they committed the act of disobedient, the ability to commune with God eroded. (1)They became conscious of their physical appearance ( ashamed, pride) (2) They anticipate Gods rebuke (consciously awaiys his visit) (3) They became fearful and afraid of God ( hiding from God as he approaches.

By: carolcook (16 month(s) ago)

presuppositions of Genesis 1:1-11--each day equals 24 hours, the earth is round not flat (dome). surprises in the test-"-formless void" could be a blackhole? God created with a wind (holy spirit), and word (Jesus)-Trinity? The awesome POWER of our triune God to create the cosmos with his/her mind. How small and helpless we are.

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CT105 Biblical Hermeneutics:“The Art of Interpretation” : 

CT105 Biblical Hermeneutics:“The Art of Interpretation” NBTS Certificate Program Spring 2011 Rev. Charles Rix, Ph.D.

Student Learning Outcomes : 

Student Learning Outcomes Appreciating hermeneutics as the art of interpretation Gaining a “first exposure” to basic critical methods of interpretation Learning four essential skills to help you be a well informed interpreter of the biblical text

Four Essential Skills:With respect to the text, you will learn to : 

Four Essential Skills:With respect to the text, you will learn to Recognize a multiplicity of meanings Identify “your own biases/presuppositions” Ask questions of the text, and allowing the text to inquire of you Read the text closely

Let’s take a look at these four basic skills more closely… : 

Let’s take a look at these four basic skills more closely…

1. Recognizing a multiciplicity of meanings : 

1. Recognizing a multiciplicity of meanings

PRDS, garden or “paradise”Interpretation, 13th century rabbis : 

PRDS, garden or “paradise”Interpretation, 13th century rabbis In Hebrew PRDS speak about the four-fold approach to the Torah: “The garden within is the garden of Torah—which is the bridge between God and ourselves; it is the creation and creator of our spiritual landscape, the mirror in which God and we see ourselves and each other.” --Ori Z. Soltes

PARDES, garden or “paradise”Interpretation, 13th century rabbis : 

PARDES, garden or “paradise”Interpretation, 13th century rabbis p (P) - P’shat, or literal meaning r (R) - Remez, allegorical meaning d (D) - D’rash, midrashic interpretation (filling in gaps and excavating the text through legends) s (S) - Sod, hidden mystical meanings, the deepest depths beneath the surface of the text

PRDS Revisitedby Samuel Bak1994 : 

PRDS Revisitedby Samuel Bak1994

2. Identifying Our Biases :What presuppositions do we bring to the text? : 

2. Identifying Our Biases :What presuppositions do we bring to the text?

Slide 10: 

Develop a short story that told by this story-board.

Slide 11: 

Think about what assumptions you brought to the Exercise of telling a story based on this story-board.

3. Asking Questions:Taking the Bible Seriously : 

3. Asking Questions:Taking the Bible Seriously

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“There is, in a word, nothing comfortable about the Bible—until we manage to get so used to it that we make it comfortable for ourselves. But then we are perhaps too used to it and too at home in it. Let us not be too sure we know the Bible just because we have learned not to be astonished at it, just because we have learned not to have problems with it.   Have we perhaps learned at the same time not to really pay attention to it? Have we ceased to question the book and be questioned by it? Have we ceased to fight it? Then perhaps our reading is no longer serious.”   --Thomas Merton, “Opening the Bible”

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“The lesson of truth is not held in one consciousness. It explodes toward the other. To study well, to read well, to listen well, is already to speak: whether by asking questions and, in so doing, touching the master who teaches you, or by teaching a third party.”   --Emmanuel Levinas “Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures” (1994)

4. Learning to Read the Text… Closely : 

4. Learning to Read the Text… Closely

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 : 

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 : 

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 Adam and Eve were asked to leave the garden because they sinned? True or False

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 : 

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 Adam and Eve were asked to leave the garden because they sinned? False NRS Genesis 3:22 Then the LORD God said, "See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"-- 23 therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 : 

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 The serpent in the story of the garden is described in Genesis as Satan. True or False

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 : 

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 The serpent in the story of the garden is described in Genesis as Satan. False NRS Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?“ The text only says that the serpent was more crafty. The term Satan is never used, nor is implied that the serpent is “demonic.” Our understanding of the serpent as “Satan” is an idea we import into the text based on later New Testament interpretation.

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 : 

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 The fruit of the tree was an apple. True or False

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 : 

A Short Quiz on Genesis 3 The fruit of the tree was an apple. False There is no mention in the Bible of what kind of fruit Eve ate.

Now, let’s take a quick look at the Critical Methods of Interpretationwe will look at this semester : 

Now, let’s take a quick look at the Critical Methods of Interpretationwe will look at this semester

Why Critical Methods of Interpretation? : 

Why Critical Methods of Interpretation? To reach an informed understanding of the text.

Critical Methods of Interpretation : 

Critical Methods of Interpretation

Introducing Critical Methods : 

Introducing Critical Methods Historical Linguistic Literary Form Redaction Canonical Feminist Post Colonial and Post Holocaust Gender based methods

Assignment For This Week : 

Assignment For This Week Read pp. 1-52 in your Holladay text book. Read “The Art of the Question” (on website). Read Genesis 1-11 closely. Blog the following on the class website: Note five (5) questions you have about the text. Note one or two (1 or 2) presuppositions you bring to the reading of Genesis 1-11. Make a list of at least three (3) that “surprised” you in your reading of Genesis 1-11.