Bible Study - Jubilee

Define typology

"a biblical event, person, or institution which serves as an example or pattern for other events/persons/institutions"

Define: rhetorical question, parellism, synonymous parallelism, developmental parallelism, and parables

-Rehtorical Question: Designed to make a point rather than get an answer -Parallelism: relationship between lines of the text -Synonymous Parallelism: the lines say the same thing in similar ways -Developmental parallelism: the 2nd line repeats part of the 1st line, then advances it to a climax -Parables: story with 2 levels of meaning

Five reasons the gospels differ

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

3 parallels between Luke & Acts that let us know Luke wrote Acts

1. Opening versus "in my former book" 2. Healing of Aeneas & healing of the paralytic 3. Tabitha raised from the dead, Jarius' daughter raised from the dead 3. the ascension described only in these 2 books

List & define the 5 approaches/views to interpreting revelation

1. Preterist: Historical context taken seriously, intends to understand what original audience would have, believes most events were fulfilled in 1st century 2. Historicist: Revelation is a map/outline of what has happened and will happen through church history 3. Futurist: Views most of the book as related to future events immediately before end of history 4. Idealist: Relates it to ongoing struggle between good and evil 5. Eclectic: Appropriates the strengths of the previous approaches while discarding the weakness of them

What are the 5 poetic books?

1. Psalms 2. Job 3. Proverbs 4. Song of Songs 5. Lamentations

List/Explain the five phases of Lection Divina:

1. Silencio: Prepare your heart to hear from God by being silent/slowing down 2.Lectio: Select a passage, read it slow and loud. Listen to the text speak directly to you. 3.Meditatio: Read it again and let the words sink deeply. Repeat what catches your eye several times. How does this word connect with your life right now? 4.Oratio: Enter into a conversation with God about this passage. Respond to what God is saying to your heart. 5.Contemplatio: Give God's spirit time to work in your life. Rest and wait patiently in his presence.

The 3 limitations to when the holy spirit is working to illuminate a person

1. Sin has dulled our ability to perceive scriptural truth 2. Pre-text baggage will distort how an unbeliever reads Scripture 3. Understanding is a whole person process; unbelievers by definition do not accept the things of God.

Three ways NT letters are different from ancient letters:

1. They are typically longer 2. They do not fit in either extreme category as ancient letters do 3. They were situational

Reference and quote 2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching/rebuking/correcting/and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Define "authorial intent" and "reader response"

Authorial intent: Meaning is determined by the intention of the author Reader Response: Meaning is determined by the reader or by a community of readers

What does the poetry of the OT focus on? Answer in intro of notes

Emotional responses to God as well as to those who are hostile toward God and His people

List & Explain each of the 2 Bible Code methods discussed in this chapter

Gematria: Biblical Hebrew uses the normal letters of the alphabet not only to represent the sounds of words, but also numbers Equidistant Letter Sequencing ELS: Employed by authors of the bible code. Uploaders put the Hebrew Bible on a computer and programmers tell the computer to look for words or patterns of words by selecting equidistant letters

Be able to describe Rahab and Achan (10 of the 13 and how they function in Joshua 1-7)

Good luck with that one.

What does Gospel mean and what is the transliterated word in the Greek?

Gospel: euangelion: good news

List the 4 major prophets

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Dniel

Purpose of wisdom literature

Listen, look, think, reflect: PResent practical theology for living a day to day godly life

Types of meaning in reference to the city of Jerusalem

Literal: the actual city Allegorical: church of christ Moral: soul of a person Anagogical: the heavenly city of God

How do we know what to apply from Acts & what not to apply? Why do we not live in commune and cast lots?

Look for what Luke intended to communicate, look for what is happening overall in light of the text, look for positive and negative examples from characters in the story, look for patterns, look to other parts of Acts to clarify

Disadvantages of a narrative

Meaning can be subtle, can be taken as a story and lose its meaning, readers can assume it only deals with history not theology, reader may allegorize

Three categories of Law and which do we uphold today?

Moral, civil, ceremonial - we uphold the moral

Can non believers understand the Bible as believers do?

No, because those without the Spirit cannot accept the things that come from God. but considers them foolish (2Cor 2:14) I chose that because I do not believe there is a grey area between redeemed eyes and unredeemed eyes. We cannot possibly see it the same.

List the 4 wisdom books

Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs

Define "Synoptic" & List 3 Gospels considered "Synoptic"

Synoptic: Matthew/Mark/Luke "seen together"

Explain Near View-Far View

The prophets clearly saw the destruction of Israel & Judah, but they also saw glimpses of the destruction of other nations and the judgement of the whole world

How many levels of meaning are there? Define each one.

Three 1. Literal: the actual meaning the author placed in the text 2. Allegorical: Symbolism pattern/foreshadowing 3. Anagogical: 4. Moral: Spiritual principle

Why is prophetic literature difficult to understand?

We have no comparable genre in English literature

Define "meaning"

what the author intends to convey with his signs