Bible Study MethodsSession 2

Things Your Lutheran Pastor Totally Loves: Talking with Biblicists

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFX8i8RQPEU&list=UU2-3Cf7Hw10b3NW05p2Z7IA&index=54&feature=plcp

“Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount – a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application?” - Barack Obama

Galatians 2:20

New International Version (2011)20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

The Common English Bible (2010)20 I have been crucified

with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ

lives in me. And the life that I now live in my body, I live by faith,

indeed, by the faithfulness of God’s

Son, who loved me and gave himself for me.

The Babylonian Deportation of the Jews

The Loss of Language?1. Why do we think that the Jews lost

their language?a) Nehemiah 8:8 - “gave the sense”b) Mark 15:34 – the cry of dereliction

2. Why does this matter?a) Universal and multilingual faithb) Contrast Christianity and Islamc) You are modern day “Levites” – giving

the sense

Ezra Reading the Law on his platform.

Nehemiah 8

“giving the sense”

Assignments1. Reading Journal #22. Find the Unit in Leviticus 193. Reading in How To … 4. Reading in Blue Parakeet

“all translations are interpretations”

a) The philosophy of translation1. Dynamic equivalence – thought for

thought2. Formal equivalence – word for word3. All generalizations are false including

the one above. b) Why it’s good to be a Bible reader in

the 21st century.

Albert Schweitzer

Biblical Critic, Physician and humanitarian