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| What to Do
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| I. Close read the text.
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| Guide by questioning.
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| i. Beast?
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| ii. “Shall”
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| iii.Cloven foot?
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| ii. Identify the boundaries of the pericope.
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| Natural transitions before and after the ‘cross’
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| Iii. Identify hints of prophetic riddle
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| Word play
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| Contradiction
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| Unnatural
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| iv. Identify and discern symbols
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| Important nouns
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| Important verbs
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| v. Identify the key
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| Cross symbol
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| vi. Outline the pericope using pattern
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| Identifying parallel pericopes
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| Symbol matching
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| vii. Restate the pericope in the scope of Christ
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| Interpreting the story as scoped to Christ.
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| interpretation of symbols
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| viii. Resolve interpretive issues using the rules
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| Apply the rules
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| Adjust the interpretation
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| ix. State the revelation of the Invisible God
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| Doctrine
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| Reproof
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| Correction
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| Training in Righteousness
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| Content Guide
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| Chapter
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| What to Know
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| How to Do it (ID)
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| Achievable
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| 1. ‘Close read’ the text
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| A. Literal meaning of the text. This will be difficult since commentators will not agree.
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| Use a template of close reading questions to focus the attention of the student on details.
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| Understand there are no right answers in the literal.
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| 2. Identify boundaries of the pericope
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| There is a beginning and end of the hidden pericope.
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| Look for transitional statements, changes of ideas, story, character …
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| Hypothesized scope of pericope
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| 3. Identify hints of prophetic riddle
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| It is all prophetic riddle. Hints draw you in.
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| Oddities, contradictions, uncharacteristic things, symbols, word-play.
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| List of questions for the text.
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| 4. Identify and discern symbols
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| Everything is a symbol
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| Symbols are defined by words
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| Symbols are related by proper allegory
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| Use tools (dictionary, symbol list, …)
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| Think like a child
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| Have fun
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| Follow the rules
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| Working list of alternate meanings.
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| 5. Identify the key
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| Narrative pericopes have a key.
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| B. The key is the symbol representing the cross
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| Identify things before and after the cross
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| Use the symbols appropriately
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| Use the rules
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| Definition of the cross
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| Pattern workspace before and after.
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| 6. Outline the pericope using patterns.
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| Symbols are the connectors to the pattern
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| I. Restate the pericope using parallel symbols.
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| Begin building the set of instances which make a pattern.
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| 7. Restate the pericope as the story of Christ.
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| Christ is the center of all teaching
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| Prophecy pushed toward Christ
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| Restate the symbols as attributes of Christ.
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| A legitimate doctrine of Christ observed in the pericope
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| 8. Identify and resolve interpretive issues.
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| The answer obtained in this process is verifiable, opposed to the free-for-all allegory of literal interpretation.
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| Compare and contrast the issue raised between the literal and mystery conclusions.
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| Confidence in the work.
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| Confidence to review the work of another.
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| 9. State the doctrine of the Invisible God
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| The Son reveals the Father
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| Summarize the teaching as to what we know about the Father through the Son.
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| Follow the rules
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| A new insight or confirmation of what we know of God.
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