Making the Bible Strange Again: Bridging Cultural Gaps in Biblical Interpretation (Understanding the Bible Series)

Voxology

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Discover how embracing the cultural, historical, and contextual 'strangeness' of the Bible can transform your understanding of scripture. Mike Erre and Tim Stafford delve into the complexities of interpreting scripture by acknowledging the hermeneutical distance created by time, culture, language, customs, geography, and value systems. They explore the contrasts between honor-shame and guilt-innocence cultures, discuss the importance of reading the Bible in community, and emphasize producing Jesus-shaped fruit over clinging to rigid doctrines.

Key Takeaways:

Understanding Hermeneutical Distance – Recognizing and bridging the gaps that impact our interpretation of biblical texts.
Honor-Shame vs. Guilt-Innocence Cultures – How cultural value systems influence our understanding of scripture and community.
Prioritizing Love and Community – Emphasizing that faithful reading leads to love and Jesus-shaped living rather than mere correct doctrine.

Resources Mentioned:

Tim Gombis's Podcast on Romans – [Link]
Scott McKnight's Book "Reading Romans Backwards" – [Link]
The Bible Project – [Link]

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, sorry to disappoint you. It's Mike and Tim and not Seth.
0:05.0	I mean, the number of emails we're getting now requesting, demanding, threatening
0:12.0	if they don't get a, if we don't like give the people a Seth intro, it's a large amount.
0:20.0	I mean, and it's increasing. And so there is definite fan club
0:22.8	that is developing. Maybe we need to start something called the Sethcast. I think we've
0:30.0	teased that before. And Seth, I don't know, though, because Seth's ego is getting kind of big. I've
0:33.5	seen him walk around his chest all puffed out. Totally, totally.
0:38.4	And he's at school today, which I have to be honest, is great for my focus, but not great
0:44.6	for the audience.
0:45.4	So we're sorry.
0:47.6	We did release something along the lines of a Seth cast in The Wanderer.
0:55.1	We released the first episode of The Wanderer.
0:57.4	Tim, you want to tell us a little bit about that?
1:01.0	Yeah, we started our, well, we started a little mini series on talking about you two and theology.
1:07.3	The first episode was last week and it was mostly our history with the band and how it mirrored our spiritual journeys and stuff.
1:16.6	And the second episode will come out two days after this.
1:19.0	And it's a much deeper dive and a little bit more focused, a little less wandering.
1:26.5	It's our two Tims. It's two Tims, a little less wandering. It's our two Tims.
1:28.8	It's two Tims, a band, you two, two, and a whole bunch of words.
1:33.8	And it's glorious.
1:35.5	So that comes out on the Voxology feed.
1:38.9	So just if you're wondering what that was, that's what that was.
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