Hermeneutics Huesday 04 {context IS king, but literary context is not enough}

Her God Speaks

The takeaways from this episode:

• Literary context is essential, but literary context without deep regard for historical and cultural context can give you a false sense of understanding what a passage means when in reality you're not being a very good "tourist" of scripture.
• We cannot assume that our plain reading of the text is the same as the original audiences’ plain reading of the text. What a passage means for us when we take it at face value is probably not what it meant for them when they took it at face value.
• Genesis 1 is a temple text.
• We need to find scholars who are experts in historical/cultural context and we need to read what they're writing.
• Some of my favorites for OT studies are are John Walton, Michael Heiser, Tremper Longman, Gordon Whenham, and Tim Mackie.
• For NT studies, my go-to scholars are NT Wright, Michael Bird, Craig Keener, Douglas Moo, Scot McKnight, Tom Schreiner

The Lost World of Genesis One by John Walton

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