Exegesis Research Paper Assignment: Meaning of the Passage and Bibliography
Overview
The Meaning portion of the paper will run between 4-5 pages double-spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font type. You will re-write the Context section as needed, taking into consideration any feedback provided by the professor in your paper.
Instructions
In the Meaning portion of the paper, you are analyzing and exegeting the text verse-by-verse utilizing the commentaries and journal articles listed in your Bibliography. I should see a significant number of footnotes in this section as you interact with and engage with comments and observations of commentators and journal article authors. Pay attention to the text! Your interpretation of the text should be based in the text not imposed upon the text from some external source. The sources you use to assist you in your study of the text must be current (1950 to the present) and scholarly (written by academics with credentials that qualify them to write not popular treatments written for laity) using those found in the ATLA database as a guide. For example, J. Vernon McGee, although an outstanding popular Bible teacher in his day, is not a scholarly source.
Be sure to rely on the required hermeneutics text by Kaiser and Silva for guidance about how to do basic exegesis and interpretation of a biblical text and to utilize Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age in analyzing your text from a spiritual formation perspective.