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.
