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The ways of the gods in these stories are arbitrary and mysterious. Entering into the world of any story requires that we note the attitudes presupposed by the story\u2019s writer and characters. Travel Guides to the World of the Text The most effective aids in traveling to the world of the biblical text are without a doubt visual images of that world.<\/p>\n

These need not be limited to the conventional Holy Land pictures. There is much that is universal in the world of biblical texts. We can make the nature psalms come alive with pictures from our family vacations. Visual images come in various forms. One is simply physical objects that the teacher takes to class. Pictures are also especially effective. If a group is small, pictures in books can be held up or circulated.<\/p>\n

If these resources are impossible, one can use words to create imagined scenes. Geography plays a major role in many parts of the Bible. Maps are always a relevant source with such passages. Relating geographical facts from the ancient world to familiar distances, population figures, and so forth is likewise effective. If the Red Sea is twelve hundred miles long and two hundred miles wide, students find it useful to know what this means when plotted in terms of familiar geography.<\/p>\n

Commentaries and Bible dictionaries are gold mines of information about the world of a biblical text. These are essential among a Bible teacher\u2019s tools. The most helpful commentaries are of course scholarly ones, as distinct from devotional or homiletic ones. Beyond that, there is no way other than browsing widely to know which commentaries will be good for reconstructing the world of a text.<\/p>\n

Even within the same commentary series one will find a wide range of adequacy on this matter. There is today a general religious bias toward a galloping subjectivity. But our first obligation to a text is to let it hang there in celestial objectivity\u2014not to ask what it means to us.<\/p>\n

A good sermon or a good teaching job must begin with angelic objectivity. There\u2019s something in the mood of our culture that hates that. We want to hurry up and get to what something means to the individual. But this notion presents a serious danger for the true meaning of any important text\u2014biblical, literary or otherwise.<\/p>\n

The text had a particular meaning before I saw it, and it will continue to mean that after I have seen it. Joseph Sittler, \u201cProvocations on the Church and the Arts,\u201d Christian Century, March 19\u201326, 1986, 294. We should not overlook our own imaginations as resources to be used when getting inside the biblical world.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 1988, 2012 by James C. Wilhoit and Leland Ryken Published by Baker Academic a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakeracademic.com Ebook edition created 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means\u2014for example, electronic, photocopy, recording\u2014without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. ISBN 978-1-4412-4042-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version\u00ae (ESV\u00ae), copyright \u00a9 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2007 Scripture quotations labeled NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version\u00ae. NIV\u00ae. Copyright \u00a9 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.\u2122 Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The internet addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers in this book are accurate at the time of publication.<\/p>\n

They are provided as a resource. Baker Publishing Group does not endorse them or vouch for their content or permanence. OceanofPDF.com To our students OceanofPDF.com Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Preface ix Part 1 Effective Teaching 1 The Changing Landscape of Bible Study 3 2 The Church\u2019s Unfinished Task 13 3 The Tasks of the Effective Teacher 29 4 The Teacher: The Human Element in Teaching 43 Part 2 The Methods of Effective Bible Teaching 5 Discovering Unity in Biblical Passages: The Genre and Structure of a Passage 59 6 Thematic Unity in Biblical Passages: Teaching the Big Idea 69 7 Bridging the Gap 81 8 Principles of Biblical Interpretation 91 9 Understanding the Methods of Inductive and Directed Bible Studies 103 10 Leading Inductive Bible Studies 113 Part 3 The Bible We Teach 11 What Kind of Book Is the Bible?<\/p>\n

133 12 Types of Writing in the Bible 141 13 Teaching the Stories of the Bible 151 14 Teaching the Poetry of the Bible 163 15 Teaching Other Genres of the Bible 175 Notes 185 Subject Index 189 Author Index 193 Back Cover OceanofPDF.com Preface From the time that Luther declared that \u201cthe entire life and being of the church lie in the word of God,\u201d Protestantism has committed itself to the tasks of preaching and teaching the Word.<\/p>\n

Of the two, preaching has fared better than teaching. Bible teaching is a subject of neglect in the contemporary church.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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