Interpretation Of A Passage Duvall And Hays

To have a productive and constructive understanding of God it is a requirement for the reader to pay attention to context or risk missing the fundamental messages from God. To read as a contextualist one must process understanding of the scripture by consistently asking questions about context. To be a Fundamentalist is to not consider context and either believe a word for word literal account of the stories regardless of scientific evidence or to look and scientific evidence and regard the stories as untrue or implausible, completely missing the meanings carried within those stories. The important difference to determining meaning can be found in a reader who considers context in order to find these

     The Gospels can also help us to interpret what the Old Testament is directing us to do because Jesus helps us to

These differences in cultures inevitably led to the difference in Bible interpretations. These different interpretations occurred primarily in response to the moral debate

Chapter 4 of Jones’ William Clark… starts with Lt. William Clark being ordered to see the commander of the military forces in Spanish Louisiana regarding the construction of a Spanish military base on a US-controlled area of the Mississippi. Clark’s meeting with the regional governor provided Clark with the opportunity to gather information on Spanish military assets in the area, info he disclosed to his chain of command upon his successful return. Shortly after this successful mission, Clark resigned his commission and returned home to assist his brother George Rogers with settling the latter’s legal issues and help his father manage the Clark family plantation. Getting the plantation’s crop to market, Jones writes, forced Clark into a long, bad weather-threatened trip down the Mississippi. Clark’s return home on the ship Star was equally as arduous, as he had to contend with hostile

The black characters act justly throughout the novel by treating every one with equality and respect. In Chapter 12, when Jem and Scout visit Calpurnia’s Negro church for the Sunday service, Lula, a hostile Negro woman tells them impolitely to leave. Calpurnia defends the children and contradicts Lula by saying, “It’s the same God, ain’t it?” Amidst an argument over the antagonistic rifts between black and white regimes, Calpurnia acknowledges that all people, no matter the race, worship the same God, and are therefore equal. During Chapter 12, after the church service, Reverend Sykes takes up an extra collection of money that is collected towards Tom Robinson's wife, who has not been able to find work since her husband is sent to jail since he allegedly rapes a white woman. Reverend Sykes tells the attendees of the service, “I want all of you with no children to make a sacrifice and give one more dime a piece.” The Revenant shows justice by being equal and respectful towards everyone. In order to be fair he asks those who don’t have a family to feed and shelter to donate an extra dime, and not forcing those who have a family to donate extra money. During his testimony in Chapter 19, Tom Robinson states a different story than that of Mayalla’s; he is then questioned on whether he is accusing Mayella of being a liar. Tom refuses to accuse Mayella of lying, but persistently says that she is "mistaken in her mind." This shows Tom’s unrelenting respect and honest living; even though Mayella is unjust to him, he continues to treat her with justice and respect because he knows that she is just a little girl who is lonely and even though she sent him

Reading the text as if it were addressed to God’s people in all times and places, would help us to “make ourselves at home and allow the texts to shape us” (61).

I will begin by confessing that I am a word nerd. Unfortunately, I cannot read biblical Hebrew or Aramaic, so I've often relied on pastors, authors, or bible commentaries to reveal to me the significance/hidden meaning of certain passages of scripture. Oftentimes, when viewed in context the meaning of a word or phrase can take on an entirely different connotation. My absolute favorite aspect of this bible is the way words and phrases are dissected, broken down into little bite sized pieces, in the notes. Thereby, describing how a word is being used (part of speech), how it was used in a similar way elsewhere in scripture, and/or how it is defined in context.

In Chapter 16, it is the next morning and the family is eating breakfast (day of the trial). Atticus states that he is grateful for having his children disobey rules to help him and notes that Mr. Underwood never liked Negroes, which is odd that Underwood was there at the jailhouse. In addition, Jem claims that Mr. Cunningham would have killed Atticus the night before, yet Atticus defends his relationship with Cunningham by stating that he has “blind spots” like everyone else. The vast majority of Maycomb are heading for the courthouse, which include Baptists (Miss Maudie talks about these harsh people). Though, Miss Maudie proves that gardening is actually something beautiful in God’s eyes. Albeit that Atticus tells the children not

There are many ways to interpret a text, but for text like the scripture it take what we called the senses of Scripture to use as an application to understand the scripture. In the Chapter 6 of the book “How Do Catholics Read the Bible” entitled “How do Catholics Interpret Scripture,” the author discuss three senses of Scripture in which are various ways relate how meaning of a text is interpret, which are in literal sense, spiritual sense and fuller sense. According the author, Harrington J. Daniel, in the chapter 7 entitled How do Catholics Interpret Scripture, “the definition of the literal sense respect both the divine and human contribution of the word of God in human language… and interpreting the text in its original historical and cultural context. It asserts that one arrives at the literal sense only by means of a careful analysis of the text, within its literary and historical context.” This means that literal sense is discovered by careful and attentive study of the biblical text using all interpretive tools available, such as, archaeological evidence, for historical and literary analyses, sociological and anthropological studies to understand the culture, and whatever else can be called upon to expand one’s knowledge of the historical, literary and cultural context of the text and give the reader better understanding of the literal

Through colloquialisms, interpretations are often lost. Another anomaly is that words change definition over time, and depending on the culture, the same words may have a completely different meaning. For instance, prior to 1950, the word gay simply meant happy. Today, it refers to homosexuality. Sometimes words can even have different meaning among subcultures of the same society. In the American Caucasian culture, the word “punk” generally refers to someone who likes rock music and may have a colorful Mohawk. In African American culture, the word punk has shifted over time to mean a feminine male. Understanding the culture of the original authors of the Bible will give believers a deeper understanding of the Word.

When studying any piece of literature there are many different methods and techniques that can be used. The Bible, in specific, is often referred to as a source of moral code, hope, and answers to social, ethical, and political questions. However, this incredibly influential book can also be read as if it were any other novel. The events, settings, and characters can all be evaluated for what they are, forgetting the notion that they are from a religious text. This approach is called narrative criticism. When regarding to the Bible in this way, we do not need to know any historical information or focus on seeking a deeper theological meaning. Instead, the stories are evaluated in terms of how

Context is everything when it comes to understanding what someone really means, especially when it comes to understanding God’s word. As Duvall and Hays say, “…context determines meaning” (Duvall and Hays 149). I know full well what it is like to have my words taken out of context and twisted to mean something entirely different than what I originally meant. This can also be said of what Christians, including myself, potentially do when a specific scripture is taken out of context and twisted to mean something other than what God intended. For example, people can take an Old Testament scripture, such as Isaiah 61:9 that says, “Their descendants will be recognized and honored among the nations. Everyone will realize that they are a people the

The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics,

Although the bible is left up for interpretation, many believe that over time the words have been misconstrued. They yearn to

Biblical Interpretation is important and necessary so that we can understand what the text is saying, what the intended theological message is, and how to personally apply and teach these Scriptural truths to carry forward the Gospel in rescuing others from despair and death to hope and life, thus displaying His glory and growing His Kingdom. It is about finding what God is revealing about Himself and His Son Jesus Christ. Moreover, it is for us to know that God desires to have a relationship with us and for us to be set apart in a covenant relationship with Him to display holy lives that bring Him glory. Interpretation, using hermeneutical principles, help guide us in proper boundaries for interpreting Scripture so that we can reveal the intended meaning of the text. Without this, we run the risk of imposing our own ideas on the text, therefore misinterpreting. Misinterpreting can cause us to miss theological truths, administer the wrong application, and neglect or overlook the meaning of the text which weakens the impact of God’s truth in our personal lives as well as others we are teaching.