Historical Context/Hermeneutic Principle Summary
Historical context is important because of the occasion, the purpose of the biblical books and what they reveal. It also involves a number of different disciplines that are political, social, cultural, economic and historical geography. The historical writings are interpretations and each person comes to a different conclusion about the meanings. The reading of the history is to not come up with the best interpretation but to discover the intended meaning, the way the original audience understood it. It is also helpful to read the different translations to get the big picture and a feel for the argument, using three types of translations, literal, dynamic, and paraphrase. (Andrew.S.Kulikovsky B.app.Sc (Hons)
In the literary context, there are the words and they only have meaning in the sentence. The intent is to find out what the original author intended, such as learning to trace Paul’s argument as an answer to the problem. Judgments on Paul were wrong and the Corinthians misunderstood the nature and function of leadership in the church. This now leads you to the question (What is the point?). So you now must figure out how the content contributes to the argument. Literary context helps you to understand how the historical context fits into the content of a section of a book or group of books.
Summarizing the Hermeneutical Principles
The issue is that all people do hermeneutics and there are many differences but not far more than actually exist and the problem is cultural relativity, meaning that what exists and belongs in the first century and what is for all seasons. When we read the Epistle, we bring our own common sense to the text and apply what we know in our time to a time in the first century and it results in selectivity of the certain texts. We use our own culture to dictate what common sense is to us is, but a text cannot mean what it never meant. (Fee & Stuart. p. 22) We as Christians should not rely solely on our own judgments, as we don’t have
In the literary context, there are the words and they only have meaning in the sentence. The intent is to find out what the original author intended, such as learning to trace Paul’s argument as an answer to the problem. Judgments on Paul were wrong and the Corinthians misunderstood the nature and function of leadership in the church. This now leads you to the question (What is the point?). So you now must figure out how the content contributes to the argument. Literary context helps you to understand how the historical context fits into the content of a section of a book or group of books.
Summarizing the Hermeneutical Principles
The issue is that all people do hermeneutics and there are many differences but not far more than actually exist and the problem is cultural relativity, meaning that what exists and belongs in the first century and what is for all seasons. When we read the Epistle, we bring our own common sense to the text and apply what we know in our time to a time in the first century and it results in selectivity of the certain texts. We use our own culture to dictate what common sense is to us is, but a text cannot mean what it never meant. (Fee & Stuart. p. 22) We as Christians should not rely solely on our own judgments, as we don’t have