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Youth Ministry Hermeneutics Class Notes - Feb 15

The document discusses the interpretation of Paul's epistles, particularly focusing on the historical and literary context of 1 Corinthians. It outlines the reasons for Paul's writing, including reports of divisions and misunderstandings within the Corinthian church, and emphasizes the importance of understanding the original audience's context. Additionally, it highlights key issues addressed in the letter, such as food offered to idols and church divisions.

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Youth Ministry Hermeneutics Class Notes - Feb 15

The document discusses the interpretation of Paul's epistles, particularly focusing on the historical and literary context of 1 Corinthians. It outlines the reasons for Paul's writing, including reports of divisions and misunderstandings within the Corinthian church, and emphasizes the importance of understanding the original audience's context. Additionally, it highlights key issues addressed in the letter, such as food offered to idols and church divisions.

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February 15

Epistles

How are they to be interpreted?


What it meant, what it means
Context:
-Historical
-General eg Corinth
-Specific: why did Paul write Corinthians
Literary
-how does this passage fit into the argument of the letter as a whole

Content: an examination of the passage itself (eg key terms, flow of thought)

Unique to th interpretation of this genre


-it is necessary to recreate the situation to which th letter is a response. This is done through:
-attention to clues in the letter itself (what has happened? What is going on in the
community that Paul addresses?)
-to some degree Acts helps one to understand the historical context of Paul’s letters

Hermeneutics
-a text cannot mean what it never could have meant to its author or his or her readers
-whenever we share comparable particulars (specific life situations) with the first century
hearers, Gods’ Word to us is the same as his Word to them

Historical Context 1 Corinthians


1. Corinth
2. Corinthians: what is going on in that church?

Occasion for Pauls writing of 1 Corinthians

1. Report from Chloe’s people (1 Cor 1:11)


2. Paul must correct a misunderstanding (5:9)
3.Letter from Corinth (7:1) concerning:
-marriage, sexual abstinence
-food sacrificed to idols
-spiritual gifts
-collection for the poor in Jerusalem

Corinthian Christians
“conversations in context”
1. Divided into party groups (Paul, Apollos, Cephas, Christ)
2.Division must have been related to wisdom and eloquence
3. Some were against Paul
4. An over realized eschatology
-some reign like kings
-speak heavenly languages
-not awaiting the resurrection
5. Gnostic tendencies
-emphasis upon “knowledge”
-ethical libertines (incest, prostitutes, pagan temples)
6. A Gentile church
-1 Cor. 12:2 “you know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to
idols

Exchanges between Paul and the Corinthians


-founding visit: Acts 18-A.D. 51
-Paul’s first letter (“I wrote to you in my letter)
-oral report and letter from Corinthians
-Paul writes second letter to Corinth

Meat offered to idols


‘Context
Historical
-prevalence of temples to various deities

Literary
-church divisions and human wisdom
-do not eat with immoral
-lawsuits and fornication
-sexual abstinence and marriage
-food offered to idols
-Pauls’ right to be supported
-table of the Lord and of demons
-abuses at the Lord’s Supper

Content (think paragraphs, key words)

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