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Hananiah means the Lord has favored (see #2608, Strong’s Concordance Hebrew entry). “Mishael” means who is what God is? (see entry #4332), and Azariah means the Lord has helped. (see entry #5838). The iah on the end of these names is the root of Jehovah, or Yahweh—the Lord God—and the suffix el on Mishael is the Hebrew word for the Almighty, referring to God. As we read their story in Daniel 3, their names shine with meaning relating to the narrative: Hananiah knows the God of all grace, the Lord who has favored, while Mishael asks “who is like the Almighty who is my God?”, and Azariah surely knows Jehovah has helped, even in a red-hot furnace—or, perhaps we should say, especially there. Unger’s Bible Dictionary is also a useful source of this kind of information. Basics Of Bible Interpretation – page 34
5 The Interpretive Process Four major steps are involved in the interpretive process. 1. Careful Observation 2. Asking Interpretive Questions 3. Thinking through to an Interpretive Conclusion 4. Anchoring Our Interpretation in the Application of Interpretive Principles Let’s took at each of these in more detail. 1. Careful Observation Here’s where most of us either win or lose. Weak and inaccurate interpretation inevitably results from superficial or careless observation. Ours is the “instant” age, especially in America. We want “instant” everything it seems. But there is no such thing as instant understanding when we seek to interpret the Scriptures. We need to emulate some of the meticulous scholarship of the previous century. One wonders how a single lifetime would be long enough to produce some of the mammoth biblical scholarship of the past. I believe that if we applied ourselves as the earlier scholars did, we would discover depths of truth even they did not see, for we have the benefit of all the previous generations of scholarship. So, let’s be good observers. First, we must immerse ourselves in the book we are studying by repeated readings of the whole book. There is no substitute for this. We need to treat it as if it were a love letter from the one who loves us the most. Then we should change our approach to that of a news reporter, who must constantly ask and answer the who, what, when, where, why, and how of his subject. Who is writing? About whom? And to whom? About what is he writing? That is, we must try to discover the major subject he seeks to cover. What is the situation of writer and reader? What circumstances surround them? What is their nationality and cultural setting? What is their recent history? What is the exact meaning of the words used? What literary form has the writer used: poetry, parable, narrative, history, logical argumentative discourse, prophecy? When is the action taking place, especially in relation to the rest of biblical history? Where is the action taking place? Where is the writer going with his argument? Where does he expect to carry his hearers? Why is the book or passage being written? Why does the writer move from one topic to another in his discourse? Why is he angry, or excited, or pleading, or commanding, or exhorting? How does he proceed to present his subject, through what logical steps or progress of thought? How does he seek to persuade his hearers? How does he relate personally to the message he is declaring? How does he introduce his subject? How does he conclude his communication? How is he motivated to write? How is he related to the ultimate Author of his book? How has he responded to the truth he is declaring? How have the intervening centuries clouded his content through changes in word meanings, cultural differences, and the changed Basics Of Bible Interpretation – page 35
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Page 5 and 6: Contents Introduction .............
Page 7 and 8: Introduction I hope that this book
Page 9 and 10: Phase 1 Back to Basics Basics Of Bi
Page 11 and 12: Notice, in the same way God blesses
Page 13 and 14: 2 Is Anybody Listening? God still
Page 15 and 16: easily explain our lack of agreemen
Page 17 and 18: Version, the Revised Standard Bible
Page 19 and 20: But at the third paragraph I was di
Page 21 and 22: commentary; or a concordance. But h
Page 23 and 24: 4 Interpretive Principles So you h
Page 25 and 26: may write his thoughts. If we can u
Page 27 and 28: What CHRIST said…in the Upper Roo
Page 29 and 30: The Problem: Failing to respond to
Page 31 and 32: …Jesus our Lord…was put to deat
Page 33: And when we read “God came down
Page 37 and 38: Let’s Try It! For example, our Lo
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Page 41 and 42: approach to Bible study. It has uni
Page 43 and 44: Jesus, the Messiah ‣ The Anticipa
Page 45 and 46: B. THE EPISTLES The Explanation of
Page 47 and 48: But regarding Ammon, the entrenched
Page 49 and 50: The Microscopic View Now we come to
Page 51 and 52: DISCOVERING GOD’S TRUTH Step 3 Ge
Page 53 and 54: Now choose a single verse of script
Page 55 and 56: DISCOVERING GOD’S TRUTH - STEP 2
Page 63 and 64: f. In relation to worldlings 4:5, 6
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Page 71 and 72: Metaphor By contrast, a metaphor is
Page 73 and 74: Apostrophe This is a strange but gr
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types—to make an unforgettable im
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point of analogy? Is each Israelite
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Biblical Symbols and Types Rules fo
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10 The Greeks Had a Word for It Th
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so. However, there are other factor
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The Indicative Mood In English this
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Greek Conditional Clauses CLASS EXP
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Diagram of the Directive and Local
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I have found this chart so helpful
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old man and new man. This is mislea
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So I sense there is meaning in both
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the Old Testament; new meanings for
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Most translations take these verbs
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Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
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1) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordanc
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12 Getting It All Together Up to n
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E. How God Works vv. 8-10 1. By per
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14 Now, as many as are led by the S
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B. Our Conclusions 7:21-25 1. I fin
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The Last Word There are some who be
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Appendix A Basic Grammatical Data A
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2. Find relationships between units
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*Thompson’s Chain Reference Bible
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Wilgram, George, The Englishman’s
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Metzger, Bruce M., The New Testamen
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8. Verse 7 begins with the conjunct
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26. Paul is quoting a portion of an
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A Song of Confidence - Psalm 62 A.
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V. The keynote of Jehoshaphat’s p
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4. The Rest of Faith 5. His Priestl
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Chart 2. Setting Historical/ Cultur
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