Bible Interpretation, Student Workbook, SW05

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B I B L E I N T E R P R E T A T I O N

2. Can we trace the origins of the Bible from the actual events as they happened to our present Scriptures in our own mother tongue?

3. Modern historical criticism is concerned with tracing the origins of the Scriptures from the original events to the actual stories and reports about them to the texts of Scripture, and finally to the translations we have today.

a. Original events: revelatory events (e.g., the Christ event)

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b. Actual stories and reports about them ( the oral traditions which circulated before the accounts were written down )

c. To the texts of Scripture ( the actual construction of the books themselves )

d. To the translations (our present translations)

B. A biblical example of criticism: Luke

1. The testimony of Luke, Luke 1.1-4

a. Compiling a narrative of historical facts

b. Based on eyewitness accounts of those who believed

c. Orderly account for Theophilus