Book Critique Of How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth
Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Book Critique of
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
A Paper Submitted to Dr. Thomas
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For
The Course
NBST 610
By
Marie Goldston
November 11, 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..3
A Brief Summary………………………………………………………………………..4
Critique the Author’s Work……………………………………………………………...12
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………. 13
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………..15
Introduction This is the third edition of, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth; by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart. This book stress that the Bible should be read by all people and not for just clergy, scholars, …show more content…
“Every reader or believer does hermeneutics whether they realize it or not.15 There are some basic rules of hermeneutics is that the text “cannot mean what its original intent or meant, to the authors or the audience it was original intended.16 Basic rule number two is when one share common particulars with the audience. God’s word does not change it stay the same. It’s the same to us as it is was for the original audience.17 The author’s talks about how careful exegesis comes into play now, especially when there is an underlying idea in place. The author asked the question if it was appropriate to practice an extended application of a given text that there a contextual parallel or a specific parallel to the modern situation. He answered emphatically no! If one blows the text all out of portion beyond the direct parallel, he argues, then why uses exegesis.18 One has to remember that Scripture cannot be used or applied out of context; it is stated that the reader must be careful not to read more into a Scripture that is not there.19 The twenty-first century is cultural different from the first century so one must be careful when applying or teaching because one cannot use Scriptures out of context.20 What the author said to help in this situation is, the interpreter needs to have a solid exegesis of the text, so the principle may transfer to the modern culture.21 …show more content…
25 There are three levels of narrative, and it starts with the third and goes downs. The third level is called a “metanarrative” this covers the whole plan of God through his creation.26 The second level is the story of God’s redeeming a people for his name.27 The first level is the “last” level, this where all the hundreds of individual narratives that make up the other two levels. With somewhat a better understanding of the “hierarchy of narrative” it give one a better knowledge and an application of the Old Testament
Book Critique of
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
A Paper Submitted to Dr. Thomas
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For
The Course
NBST 610
By
Marie Goldston
November 11, 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..3
A Brief Summary………………………………………………………………………..4
Critique the Author’s Work……………………………………………………………...12
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………. 13
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………..15
Introduction This is the third edition of, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth; by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart. This book stress that the Bible should be read by all people and not for just clergy, scholars, …show more content…
“Every reader or believer does hermeneutics whether they realize it or not.15 There are some basic rules of hermeneutics is that the text “cannot mean what its original intent or meant, to the authors or the audience it was original intended.16 Basic rule number two is when one share common particulars with the audience. God’s word does not change it stay the same. It’s the same to us as it is was for the original audience.17 The author’s talks about how careful exegesis comes into play now, especially when there is an underlying idea in place. The author asked the question if it was appropriate to practice an extended application of a given text that there a contextual parallel or a specific parallel to the modern situation. He answered emphatically no! If one blows the text all out of portion beyond the direct parallel, he argues, then why uses exegesis.18 One has to remember that Scripture cannot be used or applied out of context; it is stated that the reader must be careful not to read more into a Scripture that is not there.19 The twenty-first century is cultural different from the first century so one must be careful when applying or teaching because one cannot use Scriptures out of context.20 What the author said to help in this situation is, the interpreter needs to have a solid exegesis of the text, so the principle may transfer to the modern culture.21 …show more content…
25 There are three levels of narrative, and it starts with the third and goes downs. The third level is called a “metanarrative” this covers the whole plan of God through his creation.26 The second level is the story of God’s redeeming a people for his name.27 The first level is the “last” level, this where all the hundreds of individual narratives that make up the other two levels. With somewhat a better understanding of the “hierarchy of narrative” it give one a better knowledge and an application of the Old Testament