VBS 2015 "A Bible Study: Perfecting Our Approach to the Scriptures"

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Across
  1. 3. Leverage the work of these persons also called scholars.
  2. 4. When it comes to interpretation, this is everything.
  3. 6. This is necessary when studying the Bible.
  4. 7. This type of criticism studies how the documents were assembled by their final authors and editors (who edited the text and for what reasons: i.e. Phoebe referred to as a servant in Romans 16 but the same word is rendered Deacon for men exposing patriarchal bias).
  5. 8. To convert something in one language to another.
  6. 10. The other language used in the Old Testament besides Hebrew.
  7. 11. The purpose of this type of criticism is to understand the meaning of a biblical text to its original audience in original setting with the hope that you can transport its lessons to today or have practical application.
  8. 13. The number of books scholars overwhelmingly agree that Paul wrote.
Down
  1. 1. The greatest revelation of God, even greater than the Bible.
  2. 2. This type of criticism is concerned with establishing the original or most authoritative text.
  3. 3. The division of the New Testament to which Galatians belongs.
  4. 5. This type of criticism seeks to interpret biblical writings in the context of their historical settings (author perspectives and intended audience perspectives, historical world of the bible, absolute rules based on context (i.e. keep Jesus and the devil out of the Old Testament).
  5. 9. The division of the Old Testament to which Joshua belongs.
  6. 11. Many writers and translators possessed this and it influenced their work.
  7. 12. Book-like form of manuscripts that replaced scrolls.