Cumulative Interpretation Exercise #1: Develop Familiarity with…

Question Answered step-by-step Cumulative Interpretation Exercise #1: Develop Familiarity with… Cumulative Interpretation Exercise #1:  Develop Familiarity with your Selected PassageAssignment Instructions:This assignment corresponds to Section II of the Exegetical Paper Guidelines (also referred to as the guidelines document). You will select a text for your exegetical paper, and you will seek to develop basic familiarity with this text.  First, select your text:For your exegetical paper, choose one of the following passages: 1 Cor. 11:2-16, Eph. 5:15-20, 1 Thes. 4:9-12; Mat. 13:15-20, Rev. 3:7-13. The passage you select here is the passage you will study and interpret for your exegetical paper assignment later. That means, once you have selected a passage and used it for your first cumulative assignment, you have to stick with the same passage for all succeeding cumulative assignments and final interpretation paper. What is your selected text?:  ______________________________ Make 25 different observations about your selected text based on information gathered from following the steps below (taken from Section II of the guidelines document). Keep your observations short (1 or 2 lines). –Read, and re-read your text in context, that is, by including in your initial reading whatever verses before and after your given passage that are necessary for understanding it. –Explore and note the basic literary context of the passage and how the passage fits within the book where it is located. —Determine the correct working translation of the passage based on key observations from comparing various translations, and/or directly translating it from the Greek or Hebrew original, if you can do that. -Consult general resources (Bible dictionaries, commentaries, etc.) to find basic information about the historical elements of the passage (Who, what, when, where, why, etc.). Form initial impressions about the meaning of the text: in a short paragraph, what do you think the text means? Or what do you think the author is saying? Or what do you think is the purpose of the text? Your initial impressions are not definitive. You will have an opportunity to study the text in depth and to draw more stable conclusions. Arts & Humanities Religious Studies Christianity THEOLOGY BIBL-2130 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)