Today's Text: Mark 6:48

Today's Principle: 6d. The biblical authors quoted and alluded to other biblical passages to provide insight, add power, and build on continuing biblical themes.

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Today's Text: Genesis 2:5Today's Principle: 3b. The unit of thought is the smallest division that retains the meaning of the text.Welcome to Bears, Boys, Bible Study Fantastica. We are the boys: Shan, Sean, and Jason. We will handle a bear of a text. And we hope the result is a fantastic Bible study. More specifically, this is a podcast about Biblical Hermeneutics, which is the principles needed to understand the Bible. Our goal is that in studying particularly strange, interesting, or difficult passages, we can demonstrate how these principles of interpretation work, and you can apply them to your own Bible studies.Principles Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QK5XxOqROeo2YlmFYGC5BQgqcK8aBBmXSzALbDqdZJA/edit?usp=sharingLink Page: https://chirp.me/bearsboysbible

Today's Text: Ecclesiastes 1:17-18

Today's Principle: 6c. A text cannot be fully understood outside of its connection to all of scripture.

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Today's Text: Deuteronomy 22:9-11

Today's Principle: 1b. Every person brings cultural baggage to the text that the original readers did not have.

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Today's Text: Jonah 1:1-17Today's Principle: 1e. Many cultural practices and societal norms are assumed as common knowledge between the author and the recipient.Welcome to Bears, Boys, Bible Study Fantastica. We are the boys: Shan, Sean, and Jason. We will handle a bear of a text. And we hope the result is a fantastic Bible study. More specifically, this is a podcast about Biblical Hermeneutics, which is the principles needed to understand the Bible. Our goal is that in studying particularly strange, interesting, or difficult passages, we can demonstrate how these principles of interpretation work, and you can apply them to your own Bible studies.

Today's Text: Luke 14:25-26Today's Principle: 5h. The authors of the Bible sometimes use figures of speech, which are not to be interpreted literally.Welcome to Bears, Boys, Bible Study Fantastica. We are the boys: Shan, Sean, and Jason. We will handle a bear of a text. And we hope the result is a fantastic Bible study. More specifically, this is a podcast about Biblical Hermeneutics, which is the principles needed to understand the Bible. Our goal is that in studying particularly strange, interesting, or difficult passages, we can demonstrate how these principles of interpretation work, and you can apply them to your own Bible studies.

Today's Text: Matthew 24:1-44

Today's Principle: 5a. How the Bible uses individual words has a major impact on the meaning of the text.

Corrections: We mixed up 586 BC with 167 BC.

586 BC: The Babylonians, under Nebuchadnezzar, stripped the First Temple of its treasures and then destroyed it.

167 BC: Greek ruler Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated the Second Temple with the sacrifice of a pig, though he did not destroy the structure itself.

70 AD: The Romans destroyed the Second Temple as prophesied by Jesus.

Today's Text: 2 Kings 2:23-24

Today's Principle: 3b. The unit of thought is the smallest division that retains the meaning of the text.

Welcome to Bears, Boys, Bible Study Fantastica. We are the boys: Shan, Sean, and Jason. We will handle a bear of a text. And we hope the result is a fantastic Bible study. More specifically, this is a podcast about Biblical Hermeneutics, which is the principles needed to understand the Bible. Our goal is that in studying particularly strange, interesting, or difficult passages, we can demonstrate how these principles of interpretation work, and you can apply them to your own Bible studies.