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Author Mickelsen, A. Berkeley.

Title Interpreting the Bible / A. Berkeley Mickelsen
Published Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, [1963]
Grand Rapids, Mich : Eerdmans, [1963]
©1963
©1963

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Description xiv, 425 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- I. Source of the Interpreter's Principles -- Importance of Interpretation -- Basic Objective of Interpreters -- Valid and Invalid Principles -- Areas of Study from Which Principles are Drawn -- Principles Versus Mechanical Rules -- II. Lessons from the Past -- Jewish Interpretation -- Patristic Period -- The Middle Ages -- The Reformation Period: Sixteenth Century -- The Post-Reformation Period: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Twentieth Century -- III. Crucial Issues -- Exegesis and Exposition -- Event and Interpretation -- Subjectivity in Interpretation -- Mythology and Demythologizing Language -- Significance of These Issues -- IV. The Bible as a Unique Book -- Claims of Authority -- Unity of the Bible -- Diversity of the Bible -- Inspiration of the Scriptures -- 2. General Hermeneutics -- V. Context -- Primacy of Context -- Tools for Mastering Content -- Varieties in Context Situations -- Principles for Interpreting from Context -- VI. Language -- Sound of Words (Phonology) -- Form of Words (Morphology) -- Meaning of Words (Lexicology, Lexicography) -- Relationship of Words (Syntax) -- Principles for the Interpreter of Syntax
VII. History and Culture -- Meaning and Significance -- Tools for the Interpreter -- Basic Elements -- Diversity in Historical Cultural Situations -- Current Emphasis on History and Culture in Interpretation -- Principles and Procedures -- 3. Special Hermeneutics -- Material Involved in Special Hermeneutics -- VIII. Short Figures of Speech -- Sources of Imagery -- Figures Emphasizing Comparison -- Figures Involving Association -- Figures Stressing a Personal Dimension -- Figures Demanding Additions to Complete Thought -- Figures Involving Understatement -- Figures Involving an Intensification or Reversal of Meaning -- Figures Involving Fullness of Thought Interrogation -- Distinguishing Figurative from Literal -- IX. Opaque Figures of Speech -- Riddles -- Fables -- Enigmatic Sayings -- X. Extended Figures of Speech -- Similitudes and Parables -- Allegories -- XI. Typology -- Nature of Typology -- Examples of Typology -- Interpretation of the Old Testament in New Testament Quotations and Allusions -- Procedures for Interpreting Typology -- XII. Symbols and Symbolical Actions -- Nature of Biblical Symbols -- Classification and Examples of Symbols -- Principles for Interpreting Symbols -- XIII. Prophecy -- Source of the Prophetic Message -- Nature of the Prophetic Message -- Language of the Prophetic Message -- Procedures for Interpreting the Prophetic Message -- XIV. Descriptive Language of Creation and Climax -- Complex Blending of Literal and Figurative Elements -- Language of the Creation of Man (Genesis 2:7-8) -- Language of Final Judgment and Destiny (Revelation 20:11-15) -- Attitude and Approach Necessary to Understand Descriptive Language -- XV. Poetry -- Extent of Poetry -- Poetic Form -- Personal Dimension in Poetry -- Poetic Imagery -- Essential Factors Influencing Meaning in Poetry
XVI. Doctrinal Teachings -- Teaching Ministry of the Church -- Human Structures for Doctrinal Thought -- Analytical Thinking in Doctrinal Studies -- Approach to Doctrinal Material in Particular Passages -- From the Part to Larger Wholes -- XVII. Devotion and conduct -- Fellowship with God through the Scriptures -- Direction from God for the Decisions of Life -- Commands of God for Daily Living -- Counsel of God for Personal Dialogue -- Message of God for Public Preaching -- Conclusion -- XVIII. Distortion through Artificial Assumptions -- Nature of Artificial Assumptions -- General Sources of Artificial Assumptions -- Areas Often Plagued by Artificial Assumptions -- Exclusion of Artificial Assumptions -- XIX. Balance through Care and Practice -- The Meaning of Balance -- Correcting Bad Habits -- Forming Bad Habits -- Forming Good Habits -- The One to Whom We Must Give Account
Summary The meaning of the Bible is involved with a multiplicity of historical events, peoples, institutions, and languages. Dr. Mickelsen shuns both the approach of proud rationalism, which would bring the Bible to account before the bar of human reason, and the approach of false pietism, which would subject the Bible to unstable feeling. Professor Mickelsen points the way to biblically acceptable principles and procedures, and urges upon interpreters a greater awareness that interpretation must always take place in the love of God and in the Spirit of Christ, of whom the Scriptures are the supreme witness
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 383-392
SUBJECT Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
Bible -- Hermeneutics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650
LC no. 63017785
ISBN 0802831923