Questions for Introduction & Ch 1-3

Intro:

1. What is a genre and why is it important to establish it when reading any passage of the Bible? What are examples of genres in everyday reading?
2. Why does “Each genre requires us to ask different questions.”?
   

Ch1:

1. What does it mean that the Bible is “the Word of God given through human words in history”?
2. Explain both the differences between exegesis and hermeneutics. How does modern science help us note the difference?
   

Ch2:

1. What are the texts of the LXX, the MT and the DSS?
2. Explain the difference between internal and external evidence in textual criticism?
3. In your own words, explain to a lay person the advantages and disadvantages of Formal equivalence and Functional equivalence in translations?
   

Ch3:

1. Explain the differences between the 3 forms of narratives in the Old Testament.
2. What does it mean that the Hebrew narrator is ‘omniscient’?