The branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.
Pete has written a very readable book which attempts to help people struggling with how to read and interpret the bible in light of today’s debates about the bible, its interpretation and history. Link: Amazon [ Read More … ]
I read one author speak about some serious things that can happen when one commits themselves to expository preaching of the whole bible. The following quote raises the question if we are prepared to read the scriptures and allow them [ Read More … ]
Word searches generally have a bad wrap in academic circles and are commonly associated with a particular exegetical fallacy. So I need to explain what the issues are and why I use them. Doing word [ Read More … ]
This is the last post of a series that discusses explanatory functions. See the intro and sola scriptura for the first two. What if a particular text could be interpreted several ways. That is having [ Read More … ]
Hopefully from my last post you can see each successive explanatory function is an increasingly better fit with the original series of numbers. Unfortunately, once a group emerges that produces a new explanatory formula they become [ Read More … ]
The following series discusses some issues relating to interpreting the bible. This is post one of three. Here are the links to the other posts. 2 Sola Scriptura and Semper Reformanda 3 Historical Evolution of Interpretations For any [ Read More … ]