Biblical Hermeneutics

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PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN PRINCIPLE #2: THE LITERARY INTERPRETATION PRINCIPLE BIBLICAL LITERALISM The basic level of interpreting the Scripture is thus the Biblical Literalism Biblical literalism (also called Biblicism or Biblical fundamentalism) is the interpretation or translation of the explicit and primary sense of words in the Bible. This is essentially what the various translators of the Bible whether within the language or into another language and culture does. This has always been the Christian understanding of basic Biblical interpretation. The question that is attempted to answer is simply, 'What did the author of the book intended to say?" The literal method of interpreting the Bible is to accept as basic the literal rendering of the sentences unless by virtue of the nature of the sen-tence or phrase this is not possible. This allows for figures of speech, fables and allegories. When rea-sons exist for something beyond the literal mean-ing, there must be some type of control. We can trace the origin of the school to Ezra Ezra founded this school when he translated the Hebrew to Aramaic for the Jews who were coming out of captivity (Neh 8:1-8). The Jewish Canons of interpretation were that: · the Word is to be understood in terms of sentence and the sentence by its context. · one should compare similar topics of scripture and give the clear passages preference over the obscure. 55
PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN · one must pay close attention to spelling, grammar, and figures of speech. · Logic is be used to apply scripture to life in circumstances where the Bible is silent. There are two kinds of literal interpretation: Letterism and Lexical-Syntactical Principle LETTERISM Letterism is the stand that it means what it says. The doctrine of the clarity of Scripture ("perspicuity of Scripture") teaches that "the meanings of the text can be clear to the ordinary reader, that God uses the text of the Bible to communicate His person and will." Perspicuous means clear. When this term is applied to Scripture, then it means that the Bible as the Word of God is understandable in the sense that the reader of that Word is able to know fully what he reads and gain insight into the truths which are set forth in the Scriptures. It is not the privilege of a few to understand God's words nor a few people are given the authority to interpret Bible. Every human being is created in the image of God and because of this God himself is able to communicate with every human being and this is what God did and is continuing to do through the Bible. 56
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