in 250 – 300 words, discuss the following:
The extent (brevity or development) of your responses can vary.
- How was the three-world exercise beneficial? Share an insight about interpretation (and interpreting biblical texts) that became evident as a result.
- How do you envision ‘interpretation’ in general – what does it involve? What ideas, experiences, concerns, interests, assumptions, and even biases do people/we/you bring to the interpretation of the Bible? How do these shape the way we relate to/interact with the Bible? What does it mean to approach the Bible on its terms? In what ways does (can) the Bible interpret its audiences?
- How can the way a person or a community interprets a biblical text reveal something about that person or community?
- What do the questions we bring to biblical texts somehow shape the answers we arrive at?