2. Tuesday-Structure

Task 1. State the implications of the text’s genre(s) Essence of the Task The original readers of the biblical books knew how certain communicative conventions of their literature worked. They more or less instinctively applied that knowledge to their hearing and reading. As we move into the tasks related to the structure of our passage, …

Tuesday-Structure: Conclusion Once you have completed the four tasks described in the previous articles, you will have an excellent sense of the structure with which the biblical author has organized his thoughts in order to communicate his message. You will also have a much better sense where the emphases of the passage lie, and on …

Task 4. Summarize units of thought Essence of the Task Starting from the structural diagram we made in the previous task, in this task, we want to summarize by units, what we have understood so far of the biblical author’s argument. By summarizing the units of thought in this way our intention is to highlight …