BIB213 Hermeneutics                                                                             Name: ____________________

Dr. Juncker                                                                                             Box #: __________

Study Questions for Fee’s audio lecture #1      "Why Christians Read Their Bibles Poorly"

a. What do we have more of today than at any other time in history?

b. What should lead the Church to mourning and repentance?

c. The main reason people read the Bible without understanding is that they treat it like a "Promise Box". What does Fee mean by this? What exactly is the problem?

d. What translation first printed each verse of the Bible as its own separate paragraph and why does Fee see this as a problem?

e. Fee speaks of the serious negative results of reading the Bible poorly. The first and most obvious is our tendency to have a "terribly __________________ understanding" of what it is all about.

f. The second unfortunate result is that we miss the significance of the ________________ because we are so poorly informed about the ____________________.

g. Ezekiel 34 is supremely significant to the interpretation of what NT chapter? __________

h. What is the topic/subject of these two chapters? _________________________________

i. Fee’s present colleague and friend missed an important allusion or "echo" while he was a student at Gordon Conwell seminary. What did he miss and why?

j. Fill in the names of the key people that parallel one another in Fee’s example from Luke: