You are required to select and answer three of the interpretive questions below. In your response to each question, cite three different commentaries or journals. Compose one paragraph for each of the three sources chosen: What does the source say about the topic in question? What is the best possible solution to the question? List each source and its interpretation of the passage in question. Write a fourth paragraph to discuss what you believe to be the best possible solution to the question. Whose interpretation do you agree with or do you have another view?
INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS
3:15 Is this verse really the "Protevangelium"? Yes or No.
4:1-6 What is the significance and nature of Cain and Abel's gifts? i.e., what was the basis of their acceptance or rejection?
6:3 To what does "yet his days will be an hundred and twenty years" refer?
9:6 Does this verse support "capital punishment"? Yes or No. (This is a biblical issue, not a social issue, so stick to interpreting the text.)
11:31 Where is "Ur of the Chaldees" to be located?
14:18 Who was Melchizedek? An historical character or "something" other?
24:2; 44:5 What is the meaning of (or significance of) "Put, I pray thee, thy handunder my thigh"?
25:8 What does "gathered unto his people mean"?
31:19 What is the significance of Rachel's theft? Why did she steal her father's teraphim?
49:10 What is the meaning of "until Shiloh come"?