8. Interpreting Scripture in Its Historical Context

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8. Interpreting Scripture in Its Historical Context

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Two Steps of Interpretation

• What it meant to them (historical context).

• What it means today (application, next lecture).

• Example: Rom 13:7 (pay taxes) – under Nero’s tyranny.

Avoid Time Problems

• Anachronism: Reading modern ideas back (e.g., Adam’s computer).

• Metachronism: Assuming ancients were primitive.

Historical Context Tools

• Date book/author.

• Research events (e.g., Nero’s reign).

• Cultural insights: Honor/shame, patron-client.

Resources

• Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias.

• Ancient literature: Josephus, Mishnah.

• Archaeology: Ur, Jericho walls.

• Epigraphy: Sennacherib Prism.

• Geography: Visit Holy Land.