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001
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Does the Catholic Church view religious life as being important to it?
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002
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Do you know the difference between diachronic and synchronic?
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003
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What could be some of the on-going assumptions made by readers of Scripture?
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004
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It could be said Martin Luther triggered the Protestant Reformation which took place
at the same time as the invention of printing. How did Luther understand Scripture?
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005
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Did Calvin (an early Protestant) understand Christ to permeate the whole of Scripture?
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006
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In the Age of Enlightenment (18th century) there was a lot of scepticism about the truth of Scripture.
What did the Protestant tradition do to combat this?
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007
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The Historical Critical Method of interpretation placed emphasis on scientific research into history and
language. What was the effect of this?
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008
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Did the Catholic church ever come to recognise the benefits of the historical critical method of interpretation?
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009
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Can you think of a limitation of the diachronic approach of Historical Critical Analysis?
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010
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How much of the text would a diachronic approach consider at once?
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011
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Could you briefly describe narrative criticism?
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012
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Do you think narrative criticism considers the gospels as literature with similar rules in writing etc.?
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013
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What sort of “understanding” is it when one looks at a story from beginning to end?
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014
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Do you think rhetorical interpretation considers what a writer is trying to convince people about?
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015
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Is semiotic analysis a form of structural analysis?
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016
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Could a writer have an underlying line of logic without explicitly telling the reader about this? (It may be of course that such a line
of logic was much more obvious to first century readers than 21st century readers).
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017
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If you look at the patterns of a text to work out its meaning would you also need
to be conscious of the social environment of the writer?
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018
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Was it likely that “story tellers” of the first century had a better memory for detail
than twenty-first century people who rely on “prompts”?
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019
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If you consider at Shakespeare’s plays, every person has their own interpretation of these.
Would that also hold for Scripture when you consider it as literature?
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020
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Mark’s gospel was written around the time Jerusalem and its temple was destroyed (70 CE). What do you think Mark
would be wanting to tell the Roman Empire about the followers of Jesus?
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021
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If an interpreter wants to explore a particular question in the gospel do you think they should consider
a range of methods they could use and then pick out the most effective one?
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