Typology

Look for words that are unclear, puzzling, or difficult. Perhaps you don’t understand the English definition of a word. Or you may find that English translations differ widely when it comes to this particular word. Or a writer may be using a word in a technical or specialized sense. A good rule of thumb here is that “the most important words are

Step 1: Grasping the Text in Their Town

add some additional and complementary guidelines and helps:

“therefore,” look back in the text and determine what the earlier reason was. Sometimes the reason is easy to find, lying out in the open in the previous verse. At other times, however, the earlier reason is more difficult to find. It may refer to the larger argument of several previous chapters.

Things to Look for in Sentences 1. Repetition of Words

The New Revised Standard Version, a thorough revision of the RSV, was completed in 1989 with the goal of being as literal as possible and as free as necessary.

Most words can mean several different things. The overload fallacy is the idea that a word will include all of those senses every time it is used. For example, the English word spring can refer to a season, a metal coil, an act of jumping, or a source of water.

After completing all of this study, synthesize the meaning of the passage for the biblical audience into one or two sentences. That is, write out what the passage meant for the biblical audience. Use past-tense verbs and refer to the biblical audience. For example: God commanded the Israelites in Joshua 1 to … Paul exhorted the Ephesians to … Jesus