REL 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: New American Standard Bible, God Speaks, Messianic Bible Translations
Document Summary
What we bring with us to out reading of the bible affects how we read it. We all have different set of lenses: biblical literalism: the bible is the inerrant and infallible word of god. Inerrant: free from error, scripture does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact. Moderate-to-liberal interpretations water the bible down this allows for nonliteral interpretation opens the door to evading the bible"s authority and making it say whatever we want it to say. Those who have this interpretation typically see themselves as affirming. Christianity as it was before the modern period (when other competing interpretations arose: the historical-metaphorical approach: the bible is a human response to god. The bible is a combination of historical memories and metaphorical narratives. The biblical story is grounded in the history of two communities: jewish and. These communities often mythologized their history, but biblical. Historical: what did the text mean in ancient historical setting in which it was written.
