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The Meaning of Eternal Relevance

   

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CS215 TUTORIALfor TOPIC 3(this should be done in week 3by Friday)sPlease re-read Chapter One of Fee and Stuart (see text list)Lodge this exercise on Moodle1.Discuss the author’s view of “eternal relevance”The meaning of Eternal relevance is that the words of God, spoken to the entirehuman kind irrespective of their age or culture. Some people believe that TheBible is a collection of propositions and imperatives made by God that are to befollowed by us without a thought. However according to the author, although thepropositions are true, it is not just in terms of eternal relevance that god speaksabout his eternal truths, but by the means of human histories within particularevents and circumstances.2.What is “historical particularity”?Every document in the bible has been largely conditioned by the time, culture,language in which it was written originally. Also in some cases it has beeninfluenced by the oral history that existed before it was written.. This is calledhistorical particularity, where something or event has been greatly influenced bythe components or factors in a particular period in the past. According to theauthor, it is the tension between eternal relevance and historical particularitythat requires the Bible to be interpreted correctly.3.What is the first task of an interpreter? What does this task help usestablish?The first task of an interpreter is to conduct an Exegesis. Exegesis is a systematic and careful studying of the scripture and it helps inunderstanding what the scriptures originally tried to mean. A person withCS215 Tutorial for Week 3Date & Version: December 2016 v4
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expert knowledge about the language and the settings of the time the scripturewere originally written can usually do this task. 4.Discuss what the authors believe is the key to good exegesis and the twoquestions one must ask of every Biblical passage.The authors believe that the key to good exegesis is to learn and practice the art ofcareful reading and asking the right questions while reading the text carefully. Two types of questions one must ask while reading a biblical text are, one, questionsrelating to the context of the passage, and two, questions relating to the content of thepassage. The contextual questions can be of two kinds, historical context and literarycontext.5. Briefly explain the historical and literary contexts.Context in terms of historical perspectives differs from one text to another andessentially have a lot to do with the culture and time of the author when the bookwas written and that of the readers. This suggests that a number of factors liketopography, geography, politics that are relevant to the author are considered asimportant determinants for understanding the historical context.Literary context on the other hand is concerned solely with the words and theirmeanings in the sentences and that, if the biblical sentences have a clear meaningwhen the preceding and succeeding lines are taken into context.6.List the tools for the process:Good Exegesis, according to the authors can be performed with a bit of highquality help from outside. The three major tools that is essential for the processof conducting a good exegesis include, one, a good translation; two, a good bibledictionary, three, good commentaries. Although there are numerous more tools,these are the three most basic and the most important tools for studying TheBible book by book.CS215 Tutorial for Week 3Date & Version: December 2016 v4
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