Advanced Hermeneutics · Intermediate
Authorial Intent and Historical Context
A text means what its author meant: reading the original audience, grammar, history, geography, and covenant setting keeps us from making the Bible say what it never said.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
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Why every passage must first be read as its author meant it for its original audience
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How grammar, history, and geography bring the meaning of a text into focus
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How the covenants and dispensations show where a passage fits in God's plan, and how covenant theology reads them differently
4
How to move from what a passage meant to what it means for us, without manipulating it
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