Explore the challenges of “distance” in understanding the Bible in the 21st -century.

Explore the challenges of “distance” in understanding the Bible in the 21st -century.

Description

Explore the challenges of “distance” in understanding the Bible and present your findings to a 21st-century audience.

Your presentation should:

• The Presentation is for New Christians

• Highlight the key challenges of biblical interpretation

• Explore whether and how the various challenges can be overcome

• Identify which of the challenges you have found most difficult to overcome

• Communicate your findings to a specific 21st-century audience

The expectation is that you simply write a presentation for a 21st-century audience who are unfamiliar with the many challenges of “distance” in the process of biblical interpretation.

You presentation submission will reflect a script of what you would say in your presentation, and in this way is different to a formal essay. As this presentation will take the form of a script, you are allowed to use the 1st person in your writing.

Ideas:

• Highlight the key challenges to biblical interpretation

• Explore whether and how the various challenges can be overcome

Research and writing:

• Appropriate academic sources used (6-10)

• Proper referencing (correct style of footnotes and bibliography)

• Correct grammar (it may use colloquial language, but it still needs to be legible)

Application:

• Modern, relevant audience addressed

• The presentation reflects the key challenges

• Personal challenge/s are identified and discussed

Recommended Referee’s:

Bartholomew, Craig G. Biblical Hermeneutics: A Comprehensive Framework for Hearing from God in Scripture. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015.

Breu, Clarissa. Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intention? : Interdisciplinary Approaches to Authorship and Meaning. Boston: Brill, 2019.

Briggs, Richard, and Stanley E. Porter. The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2013.

Grey Jacqueline. Three’s a Crowd: Pentecostalism, Hermeneutics, and the Old Testament. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

Klein, William W., Craig L. Blomberg, and Robert L. Hubbard. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2017.

Law, David R. Historical Critical Method: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum, 2012.

Martin, Lee Roy. Biblical Hermeneutics: Essentials Keys for Interpreting the Bible. Miami, Florida, 2011.

McKenzie, Steven L., and John Kaltner. New Meanings for Ancient Texts: Recent Approaches to Biblical Criticisms and Their Applications. First ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013.

Porter, Stanley E., and Matthew R. Malcolm. Horizons in Hermeneutics : A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2013.

Porter, Stanley E., Beth M. Stovell, and Craig L. Blomberg. Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views. Spectrum Multiview Books. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2012.

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