Hermeneutics Huesday 04 {context IS king, but literary context is not enough}

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Her God Speaks

Jan 31, 2023 Season 5 Episode 8

Aprile Sweers

The takeaways from this episode:

Literary context is essential, but literary context without deep regard for historical and cultural context can give you a false sense of understanding what a passage means when in reality you're not being a very good "tourist" of scripture.
We cannot assume that our plain reading of the text is the same as the original audiences’ plain reading of the text. What a passage means for us when we take it at face value is probably not what it meant for them when they took it at face value.
Genesis 1 is a temple text.
We need to find scholars who are experts in historical/cultural context and we need to read what they're writing.
Some of my favorites for OT studies are are John Walton, Michael Heiser, Tremper Longman, Gordon Whenham, and Tim Mackie.
For NT studies, my go-to scholars are NT Wright, Michael Bird, Craig Keener, Douglas Moo, Scot McKnight, Tom Schreiner

The takeaways from this episode:

Literary context is essential, but literary context without deep regard for historical and cultural context can give you a false sense of understanding what a passage means when in reality you're not being a very good "tourist" of scripture.
We cannot assume that our plain reading of the text is the same as the original audiences’ plain reading of the text. What a passage means for us when we take it at face value is probably not what it meant for them when they took it at face value.
Genesis 1 is a temple text.
We need to find scholars who are experts in historical/cultural context and we need to read what they're writing.
Some of my favorites for OT studies are are John Walton, Michael Heiser, Tremper Longman, Gordon Whenham, and Tim Mackie.
For NT studies, my go-to scholars are NT Wright, Michael Bird, Craig Keener, Douglas Moo, Scot McKnight, Tom Schreiner

Her God Speaks