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A paraphrase of the Book of Daniel placing in parallel prophecy and interprephrases. A biblical paraphrase is a literary work which has as its goal, not the translation of the Bible, but rather, the rendering of the Bible into a work that retells all or part of the Bible in a manner that accords with a particular set of theological or political doctrines. [1]
This format is the one accepted by the Chicago Manual of Style to cite scriptural standard works. The MLA style is similar, but replaces the colon with a period. Citations in the APA style add the translation of the Bible after the verse. [5] For example, (John 3:16, New International Version).
Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible.It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics, which involves the study of principles of interpretation, both theory and methodology, for all forms of communication, nonverbal and verbal. [1]
Lists of Bible pericopes itemize Bible stories or pericopes of the Bible. They include stories from the Hebrew Bible and from the Christian New Testament. List of Hebrew Bible events; List of New Testament pericopes; Gospel harmony#A parallel harmony presentation; Acts of the Apostles#Outline; Events of Revelation
Form criticism as a method of biblical criticism classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and then attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission. [1] [failed verification] "Form criticism is the endeavor to get behind the written sources of the Bible to the period of oral tradition, and to isolate the oral forms that went into the written sources.
Another primary passage of Scripture that expositors point to is 2 Timothy 4:1–2. In this passage, Paul commands the young pastor Timothy to "preach the Word." These three simple words in their context are a strong argument for the necessity of expository preaching. The word for "preach" is a word meaning to herald.
The word Christian is used three times in the New Testament: Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and 1 Peter 4:16. The original usage in all three New Testament verses reflects a derisive element in the term Christian to refer to followers of Christ who did not acknowledge the emperor of Rome. [1]
Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that the human writers and canonizers of the Bible were led by God with the result that their writings may be designated in some sense the word of God. [1] This belief is traditionally associated with concepts of the biblical infallibility and the internal consistency of the Bible. [2]