Quiz

According to lesson 3, to seek to discover the original meaning of a biblical text means to investigate the “_______, _______, and _______ that the divine and human writers jointly intended the document to communicate to its first audience.”

According to lesson 3, the common tendency is to seek to understand only the ______ that the biblical writer intended to communicate to his original audience.

2 Timothy 3:16 states that all Scripture is useful for “teaching rebuking, correcting, and training in ________.”

According to lesson 3, what are the three main concerns, or matters to consider, when we seek to discern the original meaning of a biblical text? Mark each correct answer.

According to lesson 3, why is the story of David’s sin with Bathsheba only narrated in 2 Samuel, and not in 1 Chronicles?

What do we know about Jeremiah that helps us understand his biblical writings? Select the answer given in the lesson.

In what book of the New Testament can we find most background information about the apostle Paul?

What is “divine accommodation”?

What is an “anthropomorphism”?

Which of the following examples is used in lesson 3 to demonstrate how God sometimes fit revelation to cultural expectations?

Lesson 3 teaches that modern translations usually are very misleading.

Lesson 3 encourages people to become familiar with the original languages of Scripture.

Which of the following kinds of documents have the full authority of God and are without error?

Jesus accepted the Old Testament as trustworthy, even though the original documents did not exist in His day.

Since there were many copies of the New Testament circulating in their time, the early Church did not consider the New Testament trustworthy.

The lesson indicates that there has been little scholarly research devoted the study and comparison of ancient copies of Scripture.

Lesson 3 teaches that the original biblical documents have been altered, but not enough to keep us from recovering the original text.

Throughout the history, theologians have urged that pursuing the original meaning of Scripture is an essential part of biblical interpretation.

What is the name of the early church father who accused the Gnostics of not knowing how to “read Paul,” because they did not understand Paul’s original meaning?

What term did the theologians from the Middle Ages in Europe use to speak of the original meaning of Scripture?

Thomas Aquinas said, “Thus in Holy Writ no confusion results, for all the senses are founded on one — the ______ — from which alone can any argument be drawn, and not from those intended in _______.”

What is the “grammatico-historical method” of Bible interpretation?

In general, why did the modern schools of literary criticism begin to disregard the original meaning of Scripture in the early 20th century?

What reason did the historians give for disregarding the original meaning of Scripture during the early 20th century?

What reason did the anthropologists give for disregarding the original meaning of Scripture during the early 20th century?

What reason did the psychologists give for disregarding the original meaning of Scripture during the early 20th century?

What reason did the philosophers give for disregarding the original meaning of Scripture during the early 20th century?

By the middle of the twentieth century, many interpreters ignored the ancient writers and audiences and focused entirely on the ______.

In the middle of the twentieth century, “structuralists” found meaning in the choices of ________ in a document.

Who were the “reader-response critics”?

In the last decades of the twentieth century, literary critics went so far as to say the meaning of the text itself was _______.

Some literary critics from the last decades of the twentieth century encouraged readers to “deconstruct” ancient texts by focusing on apparent contradictions and ambiguities in order to make the texts appear incomprehensible.

According to the Reformers, what was the only way to avoid the hermeneutical tyranny of church authorities in the interpretation of Scripture?