by admin | Oct 19, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
is a term that scholars most often use to refer to the individual stories about and teachings of Jesus that come together to form the canonical gospels. It is also used more generally to refer to any section of Scripture that remains a complete literary unit even when...
by admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
normally refers to a group of books, not considered canonical by Jews or Protestants, that until 1827 were included (though clearly separated from the canon of the Old and New Testament) in every English Bible printed. The majority of these books were originally...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
comes from two Greek words, the one a preposition meaning “together” and the other a noun meaning “sight.” In Biblical studies it is used to refer to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke that so often “see together” the way that they tell the story of Jesus, even...
by admin | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
is a term frequently used by Biblical scholars to talk about the literary forms in which the books of Scripture were inspired to be written. One of the most remarkable things about the Bible is just how many such genres it contains. From the parables of Jesus to the...
by admin | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
is the study of the way that words are arranged into phrases, clauses, and sentences. While most people do not use the term all that often to talk about English, scholars use it extensively in discussions of the original languages. While words in Greek or Hebrew often...
by admin | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
Is the practice of reading into a text a meaning that is foreign to it. It is an invented term formed by replacing the Greek preposition ex, meaning out of, with the preposition eis meaning “into.” It is usually used as a contrast to exegesis, “the art and science of...
