tates " The historical sense is that sense which is demanded by a careful consideration of the time and circumstances in which the author wrote. It is the specific meaning which an author's words require when the historical context and background are taken into account. (Kaiser p.88)"Next we have to consider the language of the text. This is Grammatical Criticism. " Grammatical criticism is concerned with the meaning of the words in their combination in sense units. Grammatical criticism may be thought of as the set of skills and disciplines through which the exegate seeks to re-create and enter the original thought world and linguistic frame of reference of the text(Hays p. 54)" This means that this part of exegesis is concerned with words in their context to the rest of the scripture.Another important fact of biblical exegesis is the literary criticism. This looks at the composition, structure, and rhetorical style of the text. "Literary criticism refers to the process of determining how the style and form influence how it is to be understood. Literary interpretation is the process of determining the literary quality of a writing by analyzing its genre, structure, and figures of speech and how those factors influence the meaning of the text(Zuck p.124)."Roy Zuck defines tradition criticism as the customs gap. " Great differences exists between the way people in the Western world do things and think and the way people in the Bible lands lived and thought. Therefore it is important to know the cultures and customs of peoples of Bible times. Often faulty interpretations stem from an ignorance of those customs(Zuck p. 16)." This type of criticism is very import-ant to biblical exegesis because you are forced to look at the traditions of the Bible's authors in order to understand where they are "coming from."In the next phase of my paper I will be canvassing a few applications of biblical exegesis. Now that I have shone you s...
