A Guide to Biblical Exegesis
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Description: Class syllabus by Richard Ascough, Queen's Theological College.
The word "exegesis" is a Greek word that can be literally rendered "to lead out," "to explain," or "to interpret." Not surprisingly, not all biblical scholars agree on the overall purpose of exegesis or what it might look like in practice. Since my hermeneutical framework is predominantly that of a historian, I am most interested in determining authorial intention (what was the writer trying to say) and audience reception (how would the author's intended audience understand what she or he was writing). This is complicated in biblical studies (and many other writings) by the temporal and cultural distance between the modern reader and the ancient text, not to mention the fact that the texts are written in languages in which many of us are not fluent (biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek). In addition, all readers, past and present, have preconceived notions about the meaning of words or texts (especially biblical texts with which they may or may not have some familiarity) and these notions can bias our reading of a particular ancient text.
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