5.0 Writing An Exegetical Paper and a Brief Introduction to Critical Methods

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5.0 Writing An Exegetical Paper and a Brief
Introduction to Critical Methods
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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.1 Text
• 5.1.1.1 Confirm the limits of the Passage
• 5.1.1.2 Compare the Versions
• 5.1.1.3 Reconstruct Annotate
• 5.1.1.4 Versify Poetry

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.2 Translation
• 5.1.2.1 Tentative Translation
• 5.1.2.2 Check Correspondence of Text
  Translation
• 5.1.2.3 Revise
• 5.1.2.4 Provide a Finished Translation

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.3 Historical Context
• 5.1.3.1 Research the Background
• 5.1.3.2 Research the Social Setting
• 5.1.3.3 Research the Foreground
• 5.1.3.4 Research the Geography
• 5.1.3.5 Date the Passage

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.4 Literary Context
• 5.1.4.1 Examine the Literary Function
• 5.1.4.2 Examine Placement
• 5.1.4.3 Analyses Detail
• 5.1.4.4 Analyses Authorship

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.5 Form
• 5.1.5.1 Identify the General Type
• 5.1.5.2 Identify the Specific Type
• 5.1.5.3 Look for Subcategories
• 5.1.5.4 Suggest a Life Setting
• 5.1.5.5 Analyze Completeness
• 5.1.5.6 Be alert to partial broken Forms

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.6 Structure
• 5.1.6.1 Outline the Passage
• 5.1.6.2 Look for Patterns
• 5.1.6.3 Organize by Size
• 5.1.6.4 Evaluate Intentionality
• 5.1.6.5 Analyze Poetic Structure

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.7 Grammatical Data
• 5.1.7.1 Analyze Specific Issues
• 5.1.7.2 Analyze Orthography Morphology

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.8 Lexical Data
• 5.1.8.1 Explain what is not Obvious
• 5.1.8.2 Concentrate on Key Words
• 5.1.8.3 Do Word Studies
• 5.1.8.4 Identify Specific Semantic Features

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.9 Biblical Context
• 5.1.9.1 Analyze Use elsewhere in the Scriptures
• 5.1.9.2 Analyze Relation to the Rest of Scripture
• 5.1.9.3 Analyze Import for Understanding Scripture

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.10 Theology
• 5.1.10.1 Locate the passage Theologically
• 5.1.10.2 Identify Issues raised or solved
• 5.1.10.3 Analyze Theological Contribution

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.11 Secondary Literature
• 5.1.11.1 Investigate what others have said
• 5.1.11.2 Compare Adjust
• 5.1.11.3 Apply Discoveries

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5.1 A Summary of D. Stuart's Exegetical Methods

• 5.1.12 Application
• 5.1.12.1 Clarify the Nature of the Application
• 5.1.12.2 Clarify the possible Areas
• 5.1.12.3 Identify the Audience
• 5.1.12.4 Establish the Categories
• 5.1.12.5 Determine the Time Focus
• 5.1.12.6 Fix the Limits

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.1 Warning
• 5.2.1.1 John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies
  Clarence
• 5.2.1.2 Rickie Moore

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.2 Text Criticism
• 5.2.2.1 Goals of Text Criticism
• 5.2.2.1.1 Earliest possible Reading
• 5.2.2.1.2 Understanding the different textual
  "groups" their theological significance

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.2.2 OT Text Criticism
• Emanuel Tov. Textual Criticism of the Hebrew
  Bible, (Minneapolis Fortress Press, 1992)
• Würthwein, E. The Text of the OT, 2d edition.
  (Grand Rapids, 1979)

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.2.2 NT Text Criticism
• Aland, Kurt, and Aland, Barbara. The Text of the
  New Testament An Introduction to the Critical
  Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern
  Textual Criticism. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
  1987).
• Metzger, Bruce M. The Text of the New Testament
  Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration.
  (2nd ed. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1968)

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.3 Historical Criticism
• 5.2.3.1 History of Religions (Religiongeschichte)
  - http//www.gwdg.de/aoezen/Archiv_RGS/index.htm
  
• Johannes Weiss
• Wilhelm Bousset
• Hermann Gunkel
• William Wrede
• F. M. Cross

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.3.2 Form Criticism (Formgeschichte)
• Hermann Gunkel
• Sigmund Mowinckel
• Albrecht Alt
• A. R. Johnson
• David Friedrich Strauss
• Martin Dibelius
• Rudolf Bultmann

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• Vincent Taylor
• C. H. Dodd
• Joachim Jeremias
• Ernst Käsemann
• H. C. Kee

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.3.3 Tradition History
• Martin Noth
• Gerhard von Rad,
• 5.2.3.4 Social Sciences (Anthropology
  Sociology)
• W. Robertson Smith
• Max Weber
• Norman Gottwald

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• R. Wilson
• David Petersen
• Paul Hanson
• Wayne Meeks
• G. Theissen
• Robert Grant

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.4 Literary Criticism
• 5.2.4.1 Source Criticism
• de Wette
• Karl-Heinz Graf
• A. Kuenen
• Julius Wellhausen
• Bernhard Duhm
• H. H. Schmidt
• John Van Seters

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.4 Literary Criticism
• 5.2.4.1 Source Criticism
• Two-Source theory (Q)
• Griesbach Hypothesis
• Sign Source
• 5.2.4.2 Redaction Criticism
• Willi Marxsen
• Gerhard von Rad

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.4.3 New Literary Criticism
• D. Robertson
• R. Alter
• R. Polzin
• M. Sternberg
• 5.2.4.4 Rhetorical Criticism
• James Muilenburg
• Bernhard Anderson
• H. D. Betz

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5.2 Critical Methodologies

• 5.2.4.5 Canonical Criticism
• B. Childs
• James Sanders
• Paul House