Assignments for Submission #1
Assignment 2-1: Describe the five steps of the Interpretive Journey.
Answer each step with as much information as possible. In other words, do not just give a one line re-statement of the step, but write a summary type paragraph for each. Show me that you understand the interpretive journey process. Please limit your answer to the size of the text boxes.
“Grasping the text in their town” is step number one of the interpretative journey. In order to effectively do this, one must go to lengths to understand what the text meant to the biblical audience. One must look at the grammar and the writing style and analyze it to fully grasp the concept. One should end this step by creating one to two sentences that describe what the text meant to the biblical audience. At this time one should not be trying to generalize or come up with any theological principles.
“Grasping the text in their town” is step number one of the interpretative journey. In order to effectively do this, one must go to lengths to understand what the text meant to the biblical audience. One must look at the grammar and the writing style and analyze it to fully grasp the concept. One should end this step by creating one to two sentences that describe what the text meant to the biblical audience. At this time one should not be trying to generalize or come up with any theological principles.
Step #1:
Step number two is called “measuring the width of the river.” In this step, one would begin to look at the differences between the current time period and the time that the passage was written. Here one must discover the differences in the languages, time periods, cultures, and sometimes even differences in covenant with God. In this second step one is to identify the situation that the biblical audience faces in the passage.
Step number two is called “measuring the width of the river.” In this step, one would begin to