Teaching the Bible Midterm

Wisdom

A broad category in which an older, seasoned person relates wisdom to a younger, may use parable, gives observations on fundamental areas of life- birth, death, work, money, power, time, the earth, and so on, and appeals on the basis of human experience. Bib Ex: Job, Proverbs, Psalm 37, Psalm 90, Ecclesiastes

Narrative

A broad category in which story is prominent, includes historical accounts, structure is conveyed through plot, characters undergo psychological and spiritual development, selected events used to convey meaning, and events juxtaposed for contrast and comparison. Bib Ex: Genesis-Ezra, the Gospels, Acts

The authors favor..

An essentially literal translation

Educational research has shown that truth that is discovered tends to be...

Better understood and retained than truth directly taught.

The foundation for a good inductive study is a careful study of the ___________ _________.

Bible passage

Parable

Brief oral story illustrating moral, truth frequently relies on stock characters and stereotypes, presents scenes and activities common to everyday life, and encourages reflection and self-evaluation. Bib Ex: 2 Sam 12:1-6, Eccles. 9;14-16, Matt 13:1-53

Exposition

Carefully reasoned argument or explanation, well-organized, logical flow, terms are crucial, Builds to a logical, compelling climax, and the aim is agreement and action. Bib ex: Paul's letters, Hebrews, James, 1 &2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, Jude

Head, Heart, Hands

Cognitive-Head Affective- Heart Behavioral- Hands 1. study and understand the passage. 2. Develop implications for the learner. 3. Look for opportunities for action. Cognitive Methods: Brainstorming, small group discussion, case study analysis, debates, forums, interviews, pair shares, question and answer, parables, skits, lecture Affective Methods: case studies, stories, dramas, testimonies, mission trips, work days, creative writing, debates, discussion. Behavioral Methods: Example Workshops, experiments, rewards, programmed learning, apprenticeships, accountability partners, role-plays, star charts, public recognition, practice session, support groups.

A bible passage...

Contains within itself the data needed to unpack most of its meaning, and can be clearly understood by ordinary people.

_______________ ______________translations, which attempt to make the text more readable, do not always give an equivalent English word or phrase for what is in the original biblical text.

Dynamic equivalent

When we use the term "active learning we mean..

Experiences in which students wrestle and test information being learned.

Satire

Exposes and ridicules human vice and foolishness, is employed by various literary styles, especially narrative, biography, and proverb, and warns readers through a negative example. Bib Ex: Prov. 24:30-34, Ezekiel 34, Luke 18:1-8, 2 Cor. 11:1-12:1

The heart of the inductive method of Bible study is writing a bunch of these in preparation to lead the Bible study.

Good questions

What are the different methods employed in hermeneutics?

Grammar, history, context, literary genre, and authors intent.

Which choice below is an example of a good model for teaching people to study the Bible. It has been lost in recent years because very few pastors practice it.

Homiletics

Hook, Book, Look, Took

Hook: attention getter which surfaces a need, sets a goal, and should lead naturally into the Bible study. Book: Seeks to clarify the meaning of the passage being studied, provides biblical information and helps students understand it, the point of the section in brief is getting into the word of God. Look: moves form understanding to implication, getting the word into life, helps students discover the relationship between the truth just studied and daily life, relates truth to life, and motivates the student to action. Took: Provides an opportunity for out-of class application, leads the student to specific life-changing action, provides closure to the lesson, answers the question, "so what?"

Visual

Likes: different formats, space, graphs, charts, diagrams, maps and plans Try: Reconstruct the images in different ways... try different spatial arrangements Redraw your pages from memory Replace words with symbols or initials Look at your pages.

Auditory

Likes: listening, discussing, talking, questioning, recalling Try: attend classes attend discussions and tutorials discuss topics with others discuss topics with your teachers explain new ideas to other people use a tape recorder remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes... describe the overheads, pictures and other visuals to somebody who was not there leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling'

Read/Write

Likes: lists, notes and text in all its formats and whether in print or online. Try: lists headings dictionaries glossaries definitions handouts textbooks readings - library notes (often verbatim) teachers who use words well and have lots of information in sentences and notes essays manuals (computing and laboratory)

Kinesthetic

Likes: senses, practical exercises, examples, cases, trial and error. Try: all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ... laboratories field trips field tours examples of principles lecturers who give real-life examples applications hands-on approaches (computing) trial and error collections of rock types, plants, shells, grasses... exhibits, samples, photographs... recipes - solutions to problems, previous exam papers

Pastoral

Literature dealing with rural, rustic themes, especially shepherds, Heavy on description, lean on action, often meditative and quiet, Emphasis on the bond between a shepherd and his sheep, and idealized presentation of life away from urban evils. Bib Ex: Psalm 23

What are the three types of questions used in an inductive Bible study?

Observation, interpretation, and application.

List three other genres besides narrative and poetry in the Bible...

Proverbs, parables, and wisdom

Proverbs

Short, pithy statements of moral truth, reduces life to black and white categories, often addressed to youth, frequently employs parallelism, points readers toward the right and away from evil, and heavy use of metaphor and simile. Bib Ex: proverbs

The authors stress the problem of placing too much confidence in printed curriculum materials. Which of the following was NOT from your reading?

Sometimes curriculum writers have lifestyles in-congruent with biblical principles.

Prophecy

Strident, authoritative presentation of God's will and words, frequently intended as a corrective, intended to motivate change through warnings, Foretells God's plans in response to human choices. Bib Ex: Isaiah- Malachi

Oratory

Stylized oral presentation of an argument, uses formal conventions of rhetoric and oratory, frequently quotes from authorities well known to listeners, and usually intended to exhort and persuade. Bib Ex: John 13-17, Acts 7, Acts 17:22-31

One of the reasons that Bible teaching has becomes so neglected in the contemporary church is because...

The church has failed to equip laypeople to teach the Bible

Moralize

The pastor, in an attempt to be relevant..., turns every text into some simplistic, moralistic program

Learning Styles

The way in which each learner begins to concentrate on, process and retain new and difficult information. preferred approach to accessing/learning new information, each persons is as unique as a signature.

Every verse and every single phrase in the Bible, if interpreted properly, will yield spiritual instruction that will benefit us profoundly.

This is a description of an interpretive error called "moralism"

Lot's decision to live the fertile valley of Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham's choice to defer to Lot in this decision was a picture of Lot making choices based on the flesh and Abraham making choices based upon obedience to God.

This is an example of allegorical interpretation

T/F: A story consists of clusters of ideas plainly stated in everyday language.

True

T/F: Poetry, by its nature is inherently a lie.

True

T/F: The purpose of the story is to get the reader to share an experience with the characters.

True

T/F: The story is the dominant form of writing in the Bible.

True

Part of the meaning we derive form Biblical stories is that they are often about..

Us

What could inoculate someone from biblical truth and describe how to minimize this kind of inoculation?

We inoculate people against learning from the Bible when we associate "Bible Study" with sitting and listening, when we assume understanding the truth is enough, through aimless teaching, even though it may follow a passage, by teaching in "self-contained" sessions, through curriculum, which is either poorly written or poorly taught, by withholding support form the learners, who are trying to apply God's truth, and by building dependency on the expert. To minimize inoculation the learners need to be involved in the learning process, they need to explore the text and answer important questions, the teacher needs to place more importance on guiding learners, rather than being the expert, the learners need to discover truths for themselves, the teacher needs to view bible knowledge as a means, rather than an end, the teacher and learner must share in mutual-relationship, the teacher must take the learners beyond input, challenging them to commit, and the learners must decide if they want to change, and if so, what change is appropriate to their lives.

Allegorize

When it comes to the allegorical method of biblical interpretation, allegory "searches beneath the literal meaning of a passage for the 'real' meaning" From a literary standpoint, allegory is simply one style (literary genre) out of many in which a writer may choose to write. Allegory involves assigning an allegorical meaning to a literal element of the text.

Big Idea Reminders

When stating the Big Idea that unifies a biblical passage, we are not necessarily in quest of the one right statement. A good statement of topic and theme must meet the following criteria: provides a single focus for a passage, is brief enough to be manageable, is based on accurate analysis of the passage, covers the entire passage, steers a middle course between undue generality and excessive specificity. A statement of topic and theme should be linked to the audience and specific purpose for which a lesson is intended. Our statement of the bid idea of a passage requires that we give attention to the literary form of the passage. The purpose of stating the topic and theme of a passage is to insure that a Bible study will be focused and unified.

Using "Typology" in the interpretation of EVERY passage to point to Jesus is...

a common error in Bible interpretation

Satire

a verbal attack on people

Observation, Interpretation, Application

also called the inductive Bible study. referred to as communal discovery. States with a few minutes of personal time. the group spends the rest of the time sharing what they see in the text. The leader helps summarize the main points or flow of the passage. The group discusses how the passage relates to them and how they could apply it -Introduction of to the Bible study -Individual time to read text -Observation time, ask questions like what do you see here?Do not ask content questions, rather ask open-ended questions. -Interpretation time, walk through the passage again, answer their questions together. Encourage the group to base their answers on evidence from the text itself and the context. Teach the group how to use a Bible Dictionary to find out cultural background and definitions of words. Do not use commentary. If you have helped the group observe well, the group itself becomes self-correcting. Keep them in the text. -Summarize -Application, help the group process and apply the passage. Have some possible application questions ready to go. Make sure you leave sufficient time for this. This is where the Holy Spirit will solidify what He has been speaking to the group about in the study. O.I.A reminders: Remember that you are the facilitator. Trust the text and the Holy Spirit to be the authority. Don't preach, don't lecture, and don't share everything you saw. Encourage those who are sharing a lot of tone it down. Tip: use colored pens or markers. DON'T FORGET TO PRAY!

Biography

close-up view of an individual's life, subject is often portrayed in contrast to someone else, selected events reveal character development, wither positively or negatively. Biblical Ex: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Saul, David, Elijah, Jesus

Proverb

concise memorable truth

According to the authors, the most common complaint about sermons is that they...

contain too many ideas

In the early part of the inductive study the leader functions like a good ____________.

detective

The particular kind of inductive study we did tonight in class was called in your reading a ________________ Bible study.

directed

apocalyptic

dramatic, highly symbolic material, vivid imagery, stark contrasts, events take place on a global scale, frequently narrated in the first-person as an eyewitness account, and portrays a cosmic struggle between good and evil. Biblical Ex: Revelation

The kind of Bible study spoken of in chapter ten is the same kind of Bible study we have been speaking about in class. What kind of Bible study is it?

inductive bible study

They key to good inductive bible study is a prepared _______________ .

leader

When teaching story in the Bible, we must...

learn to enjoy the details of real life embedded in the story.

In the section in chapter three "Communicating with Clarity" we read that following: Effective teachers have learned to travel slowly. They know that they often teach more by teaching _______"

less

Epistle

letters written by Apostles

The authors of our text think that an essentially _______________ translation is best for conducting a Bible study because they reproduce in English what the biblical authors actually wrote.

literal

The three basic ideas of Bridging the Gap are?

literary style bible culture authors intent

The story form in Bible literature is known also by its more proper name of..

narrative

A careful Bible study begins with careful ____________.

observations

What are the 5 interpretive errors?

paraphrase, allegorize, moralize, parallel passage, and typology.

According to chapter one, Biblical literacy is...

really low in the United States

Parallel passage

referring to a parallel passage can lead the teacher to neglect the verse being taught with focus of a different verse that may or may not share the same bid idea.

Tragedy

relates the downfall of a person, uses selected events to show the path toward ruin, problems usually revolve around a critical flaw in the person's character and moral choices, and warns readers through a negative example. Bib Ex: Lot, Samson, Saul, and Acts 5:1-11

Motivation in learning means that the person must really want to learn; otherwise their learning will only be superficial and short-lived. In a sense all education is ____________________ education.

self-taught

There are three parts to a narrative, what are they?

setting, character, and action

Paraphrase

simply stating a passage lead to leaving out important parts.

Parable

stories with rich meaning

What is the single most important ingredient in any educational program?

the teacher.

Typology

theory concerning the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament. Not everything in the old testament is meant to refer to something that happened in the new testament.

Poetry

verse intended to be spoken or sung rather than read, emphasis on cadence and the sounds of words, vivid images and symbols, appeals to the emotions, May employ features of encomium, pastor, and other literary styles, and in OT, heavy on parallelism. Bib Ex: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon.