Biblical Exegesis Outline

BIBLICAL EXEGESIS OUTLINE
I. Textual Criticism (a) to determine how textual variants arose as ancient biblical
writings were transmitted and preserved; (b) to establish the original wording, when
this is judged to be possible or feasible; and (c) to determine the best form and
wording of the text that the modern reader should use.
A. What accounts for these variations of wording within a text?
B. Which of the variants represents the original reading?
C. Can we even determine the original wording of a text?
1. Consult the text and the footnotes in a modern committee translation of the
Bible. This text-critical information should be distinguished from other notes located
in the same place that indicate alternate forms of translation or other explanatory
information.
2. Determine the type of problem involved by consulting these explanatory notes.
3. After looking at the evidence reported in the textual notes of a committee
translation, you should consult a critical, not general expository, biblical
commentary on the passage.
4. Identify the variant reading or readings and list them alongside the reading
adopted in the translation or edition that you are using. Beside each variant, list the
supporting witnesses and the date of the witnesses. Then consider the internal
criteria, asking is it consistent with the style, vocabulary, context, and theology of
the rest of the document? Is it a simpler reading or a more difficult reading? Is it
shorter or longer?
5. Regardless of the level of technical proficiency at which you are working, your
aim should be to determine the exact nature of the text-critical problem, identify
and evaluate the main options, and decide how these relate to your overall
understanding of the passage.
II. Translation Criticism translations

A. Compare versions and cite any significant, outstanding problems or differences.
B. Any biblical version is a translation from what are called original tongues:
Hebrew, Aramaic, Koine Greek.
1. Make a comparative chart of the text translations and highlight the differences,
i.e. KJV, NRSV, NIV, NASB, JB, TNK, LXX, NKJV
III. Grammatical Criticism word study
A. How individual words function as carriers of meaning and how those words are
arranged in phrases and sentences to form meaningful sense units.
B. Using analytical skills related to the study of meanings (semantics), language
(philology and linguistics), word origins (etymology), rules of usage (grammar and
syntax), dictionaries and lexicons (lexicography), and similar disciplines,
grammatical criticism enables us to enter, even re-create, an authors thought
world.
1. Determine the original Hebrew or Greek word by consulting an interlinear bible.
2. The best guide to the meaning of a word is the context in which it is used. If a
word has several meanings, we should explore the range of meanings and see how
they fit or do not fit in the context.
a. Context understand what pericope is about. What was going on?
Who? To whom? For what?
IV. Form Criticism the genre and life setting of the text to understand the content
of the text
A. Genre analysis is criticism that examines the form, content, and function of a
passage. Here we ask whether a literary unit exhibits certain features of conforms
to a clearly identified structure that typifies a well-defined genre.
B. Ascertain the situation in life Sitz im Leben in which genres originated and
developed.
C. The meaning of what is said is directly related to how it is said. What is the
interrelationship of form, content, and meaning?
D. What is said? How is it said? Does is belong to an easily identifiable literary
category? How did the text function in the life setting in which the text originated
and developed?
1. Literary classification of biblical material

2. Sociological analysis of literary genres in the life of ancient Israel and the early
church
V. Source Criticism seek to identify earlier literary sources that lay behind the final
edited form
A. Separate out these previous sources or layers of material, describe their content
and characteristic features, and relate them to one another.
B. Who wrote the text? When was the text written? To whom was the text
intended? How did the recipients of the text respond? From what sources did the
author get his/her materials or ideas?
C. Establish the environment under which the text was written, as well as the
reason and theological, or propagandistic mechanisms used by the author to
achieve the intended goal
1. Where did the writer get his/her influence? What is the social milieu?
2. Are there earlier biblical texts in the bible that are related?
3. Are there any early extra-biblical texts that are related?
VI. Redaction Criticism the final viewpoint and theology

A. Explores how an authors theology is reflected in changes that the author makes
to previous material.
B. Explain how editorial changes within the history of transmission relate to the
final, edited form.
C. Identify theological tendencies within the biblical writings and correlate these
with different strands of literary material.
1. What are the final editors aim, agenda, and ideology?
2. Investigate the alterations which the redactor made to the text, i.e. additions,
deletions, and rearrangement of material.
VII. Contextualization employing the fruits of biblical exegesis

A. Use product of exegesis for a sermon.
B. What is the good news?
C. What can I take home?
1. Summarize major thesis of six steps.
2. What lessons are learned from an exegetical study?
3. What is the application?

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What are the goals of textual criticism?

What are the steps involved in grammatical criticism?

BIBLICAL EXEGESIS OUTLINE

II. Translation Criticism translations

1. Literary classification of biblical material

VI. Redaction Criticism the final viewpoint and theology

VII. Contextualization employing the fruits of biblical exegesis

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