Grasping God’s Word - D Bodie

Grasping God's Word 3rd Edition Chapters 10-13

Assignments: Taken from Chapter 10 Who Controls the Meaning? Explain, in teaching for a Sunday School Class the following two questions:

1. Explain the difference between reader response and authorial intent.

2. Why is the issue of communication important to the discussion of authorial intent?

Assignment: Taken from Chapter 11 Levels of Meaning? Read 1 Kings 17:1-6 below and use your imagination to develop a far-fetched allegorical interpretation. Ignore the context completely and come up with a "superspiritual" meaning for as many of the details as possible. Keep in mind the point of the exercise is to misinterpret the passage intentionally. Do not be concerned with the real meaning of the passage. Be as creative (and wrong) as you can.

1 Kings 17:1-6

1And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word." 2Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 3"Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 4And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." 5So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. 7And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

No Assignment: Taken from Chapter 12 The Role of the Holy Spirit

Assignments: Taken from Chapter 13 Application

1. Read Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan in Luke 10:30-35. Contemporize the parable by writing a story of your own that retells the original story so that the effect on the contemporary audience is equivalent to the effect on the original audience. Remember, by parallel situation, we mean a situation that contains all of the key elements identified in Step 4a.

2. First Timothy 6:10a reads, "For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." Take this verse through the Interpretive Journey, including the application process;

a. Summarize the original situation and the meaning of the text for the biblical audience. b. Measure the width of the river. What are the differences between the biblical situation

and our situation? c. List the theological principles communicated by the passage. d. Grasp the text in our town. How should Christians today apply the theological principles

in their lives? 1). Observe how the principles in the text address the original situation. 2). Discover a parallel situation in a contemporary context. c. Make your applications specific by creating real-world scenarios or by contemporizing.

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