The Exegetical Process

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The Exegetical Process

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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The Homiletical Process

• Proclaiming the Word of the LORD

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The Exegetical Process

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out') Ex, out
- hegeisthai, to lead

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
Exegesis involves an extensive and critical
interpretation of a text, especially of a holy
scripture -- such as Tanach and the New
Testament of the Bible(s), Talmud, Midrash,
Quran, etc An exegete is a practitioner of this
science.

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
Although the most widely-known exegeses concern
themselves with Christian, Jewish, and Islamic
scriptures, analyses also exist of books of other
religions.

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
The word exegesis means "to draw the meaning out
of" a given text. Exegesis may be contrasted with
eisegesis, which means to read one's own
interpretation into a given text. In general,
exegesis presumes an attempt to view the text
objectively, while eisegesis implies more
subjectivity.

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
The word exegesis means "to draw the meaning out
of" a given text. Exegesis may be contrasted with
eisegesis, which means to read one's own
interpretation into a given text. In general,
exegesis presumes an attempt to view the text
objectively, while eisegesis implies more
subjectivity. (Everybody claims exegesis and
imputes eisegesis!)

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')

• Traditional exegesis involves
• analysis of significant words in the text in
  regard to translation
• examination of the general historical and
  cultural context,
• confirmation of the limits of the passage,
• examination of the context within the text.

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
The Three Legged Stool Reason Thinking,
Clearly Consistently,and Coherently Tradition
Thinking in Dialogue with the Great Traditions
of Historic Christianity Scripture Thinking
Biblically

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
The Three Legged Stool Reason Thinking,
Clearly Consistently,and Coherently Tradition
Thinking in Dialogue with the Great Traditions
of Historic Christianity Scripture Thinking
Biblically

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
The Three Legged Stool Reason Thinking,
Clearly Consistently,and Coherently Tradition
Thinking in Dialogue with the Great Traditions
of Historic Christianity Scripture Thinking
Biblically

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')
The Three Legged Stool Reason Thinking,
Clearly Consistently,and Coherently Tradition
Thinking in Dialogue with the Great Traditions
of Historic Christianity Scripture Thinking
Biblically

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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Whats the difference between a pipe
One transports nourishment from one point to
another with without being changed itself
One transports nourishment from one point to
another while being changed in the process.
and a Tree?
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So the first step in the exegetical process
self-orientation
Honest with yourself
Honest with God
Honest with others
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The LectionaryCalendar
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The Lessons Appointed for Use on the Fifth
Sunday in Lent, Year B BCP
The CollectAlmighty God, you alone can bring
into order the unruly wills and affections of
sinners Grant your people grace to love what you
command and desire what you promise that, among
the swift and varied changes of the world, our
hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys
are to be found through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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The Lessons Appointed for Use on the Fifth
Sunday in Lent, Year B BCP
The CollectAlmighty God, you alone can bring
into order the unruly wills and affections of
sinners Grant your people grace to love what you
command and desire what you promise that, among
the swift and varied changes of the world, our
hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys
are to be found through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
first and foremost we preachers
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Jeremiah 3131-34
Gen 9.12-13 And God said This is the sign of
the covenant which I make between Me and you, and
every living creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations I set My bow in the
cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the
covenant between Me and the earth.
Gen 17.10-12 This is My covenant which you shall
keep, between Me and you and your descendants
after you, Every male child among you shall be
circumcised and you shall be circumcised in the
flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign
of the covenant between Me and you.
The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and the house of Judah.
Ex 31.16-17 Therefore the children of Israel
shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath
throughout their generations as a perpetual
covenant. It is a sign between Me and the
children of Israel forever for in six days the
LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the
seventh day He rested and was refreshed.
1Cor 11.25 In the same manner He also took the
cup after supper, saying, This cup is the New
Covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you
drink it, in remembrance of Me.
It will not be like the covenant that I made with
their ancestors when I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt-- a covenant
that they broke, though I was their husband, says
the LORD.
But this is the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel after those days, says the
LORD I will put my law within them, and I will
write it on their hearts and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall
they teach one another, or say to each other,
"Know the LORD," for they shall all know me, from
the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD
for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember
their sin no more.
Covenants Noahic Gen 9.9-17 Abrahamic
Gen 17.4-14 Mosaic Ex 31.12-18, Neh
9.13-14, Ez 20.12, 20 New Luke
22.20, 1 Cor 11.23-26
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The Exegetical Process
Exegesis (Greek ???es?a? 'to lead out')

• Traditional exegesis involves
• analysis of significant words in the text in
  regard to translation
• examination of the general historical and
  cultural context,
• confirmation of the limits of the passage,
• examination of the context within the text.

• Discovering the Word of the LORD

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Psalm 51 BCP page 656, Miserere mei, Deus
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your
loving-kindness in your great compassion blot
out my offenses. 2 Wash me through and through
from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is
ever before me. 4 Against you only have I
sinned and done what is evil in your sight. 5
And so you are justified when you speak and
upright in your judgment.
Parallelism
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Psalm 51 - continued
6 Indeed, I have been wicked from my birth, a
sinner from my mother's womb. 7 For behold, you
look for truth deep within me, and will make me
understand wisdom secretly. 8 Purge me from my
sin, and I shall be pure wash me, and I shall
be clean indeed. 9 Make me hear of joy and
gladness, that the body you have broken may
rejoice. 10 Hide your face from my sins and
blot out all my iniquities.
Parallelism
Hyperbole
Is this a non-sequitor?
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Psalm 51 - continued
11 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and
renew a right spirit within me. 12 Cast me not
away from your presence and take not your holy
Spirit from me. 13 Give me the joy of your
saving help again and sustain me with your
bountiful Spirit. 14 I shall teach your ways to
the wicked, and sinners shall return to you.
15 Deliver me from death, O God, and my
tongue shall sing of your righteousness,O God of
my salvation.
Parallelism
Caution Dont read NT theology into David!
Is this a non-sequitor?
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Psalm 51 - continued
16 Open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall
proclaim your praise. 17 Had you desired it, I
would have offered sacrifice, but you take no
delight in burnt-offerings. 18 The sacrifice of
God is a troubled spirit a broken and contrite
heart, O God, you will not despise. 19 Be
favorable and gracious to Zion, and rebuild the
walls of Jerusalem. 20 Then you will be pleased
with the appointed sacrifices,with
burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they
offer young bullocks upon your altar.
Is this a non-sequitor?
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Numbers 15
22 " 'Now if you unintentionally fail to keep any
of these commands the LORD gave Moses- 23 any of
the LORD's commands to you through him, from the
day the LORD gave them and continuing through the
generations to come- 24 and if this is done
unintentionally without the community being aware
of it, then the whole community is to offer a
young bull for a burnt offering as an aroma
pleasing to the LORD, along with its prescribed
grain offering and drink offering, and a male
goat for a sin offering. 25 The priest is to make
atonement for the whole Israelite community, and
they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional
and they have brought to the LORD for their wrong
an offering made by fire and a sin offering. 26
The whole Israelite community and the aliens
living among them will be forgiven, because all
the people were involved in the unintentional
wrong.  
At-one How is one restored (made at-one) with God
and community for unintentional wrong? 
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Numbers 15
27 " 'But if just one person sins
unintentionally, he must bring a year-old female
goat for a sin offering. 28 The priest is to make
atonement before the LORD for the one who erred
by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement
has been made for him, he will be forgiven. 29
One and the same law applies to everyone who sins
unintentionally, whether he is a native-born
Israelite or an alien.  30 " 'But anyone who
sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien,
blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut
off from his people. 31 Because he has despised
the LORD's word and broken his commands, that
person must surely be cut off his guilt remains
on him.' "
At-one How is one restored (made at-one) with God
and community for intentional (defiant) wrong? 
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Numbers 15
 32 While the Israelites were in the desert, a
man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him
to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and
they kept him in custody, because it was not
clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the
LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole
assembly must stone him outside the camp." 36 So
the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned
him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Why does this story follow the teaching about
at-one-ment for unintentional vs defiant wrong? 
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Psalm 51
Why does David think there is no sacrifice for
his wrong? 
16 Open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall
proclaim your praise. 17 Had you desired it, I
would have offered sacrifice, but you take no
delight in burnt-offerings. 18 The sacrifice of
God is a troubled spirit a broken and contrite
heart, O God, you will not despise. 19 Be
favorable and gracious to Zion, and rebuild the
walls of Jerusalem. 20 Then you will be pleased
with the appointed sacrifices,with
burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they
offer young bullocks upon your altar.
What is David really asking for in this Psalm? 
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Hebrews 51-10
Every high priest chosen from among mortals is
put in charge of things pertaining to God on
their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for
sins. He is able to deal gently with the
ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject
to weakness and because of this he must offer
sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those
of the people. And one does not presume to take
this honor, but takes it only when called by God,
just as Aaron was.
Why is the author saying this? What is the author
getting at? 
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Hebrews 51-10 - continued
And one does not presume to take this honor, but
takes it only when called by God, just as Aaron
was. So also Christ did not glorify himself in
becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the
one who said to him, "You are my Son, today I
have begotten you as he says also in another
place, "You are a priest forever, according to
the order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 51-10 - continued
So also Christ did not glorify himself in
becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the
one who said to him,"You are my Son, today I
have begotten you as he says also in another
place,"You are a priest forever, according to
the order of Melchizedek. In the days of his
flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and
supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the
one who was able to save him from death, and he
was heard because of his reverent submission.
Although he was a Son, he learned obedience
through what he suffered and having been made
perfect, he became the source of eternal
salvation for all who obey him, having been
designated by God a high priest according to the
order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 51-10 - continued
So also Christ did not glorify himself in
becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the
one who said to him,"You are my Son, today I
have begotten you as he says also in another
place,"You are a priest forever, according to
the order of Melchizedek. In the days of his
flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and
supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the
one who was able to save him from death, and he
was heard because of his reverent submission.
Although he was a Son, he learned obedience
through what he suffered and having been made
perfect, he became the source of eternal
salvation for all who obey him, having been
designated by God a high priest according to the
order of Melchizedek.
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John 12-20-33
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s????s?s? e? t? e??t? ??t?? ??? p??s????? f???pp?
t? ap? ß??sa?da t?? ?a???a?a? ?a? ???t?? a?t?? ?e?
??te? ????e  ?e??µe? t?? ??s??? ?de?? e??eta?
f???pp?? ?a? ?e?e? t? a?d?ea ?a? pa??? a?d?ea?
?a? f???pp?? ?e???s?? t? ??s?? ? de ?s???
ape????at? a?t??? ?e??? e?????e? ?
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?µ?? ea? µ? ? ?????? t?? s?t?? pes?? e?? t?? ??? a
p??a?? a?t?? µ???? µe?e? ea?
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The Exegetical Process

• Discovering the Word of the LORD