Course Content
Session 1
Even unfamiliar words can help convey meaning, but overly familiar words can potentially obscure meaning. Meaning has an important relationship to words, but there are more factors for communicating meaning that just words. Our modern definitions for words may not match the range of meaning for biblical words written thousands of years ago. Learning to study biblical words is crucial to deepening Bible study.
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Session 2
Reading the Bible is a cross-cultural experience. When an author sits down to write, they don’t use a mental dictionary, they use a mental encyclopedia. We must strive to be aware of our own encyclopedia, and guard against imposing our own assumptions and meaning onto the text. Reading well requires that we work to discover the encyclopedia of the biblical authors by investigating the historical, cultural, and textual background of the Bible.
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Session 3
The Bible was written in ancient Hebrew, ancient Aramaic, and Koine Greek. Jesus and the New Testament authors were raised with an encyclopedia that came from the Hebrew Bible, often by way of its Greek translation. Tracing every occurrence of a word throughout the Bible is a powerful way to better understand the range of meaning for that word. Tracing a New Testament word back through its use in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible can reveal connections the author intended to make.
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Questions (Sessions 1 - 3)
Session 4
Most words have a range of meanings, and we need context to determine what aspect of a word’s meaning an author intends. Use a variety of translations when you study. Different translations are like tools designed for different purposes.
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Session 5
Each biblical author writes with their own emphases, styles, and ideas. To better understand how an author is using a word, study it in expanding circles of context—the same book, other works by the same author, the same collection, and the entire Bible.
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Final Exam and Final Task
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Final Exam
Final Task
The Art of Biblical Words
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