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Podcast: Restitutio
Episode: 534 Read the Bible for Yourself 4: How to Determine Content and Application
Description: This is part 4 of the Read the Bible For Yourself.
Exegesis and application take work. Today you’ll learn how to grasp the content of scripture by asking the question, “What did this text mean to the original audience?” Looking for a book’s author, audience, occasion, and purpose will help you answer that question. Next, we’ll consider application and answering the question, “What does this text mean to me today?” We’ll follow Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart’s application strategy as well as their four warnings about extended application, particulars that are not comparable, cultural relativit...