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31-40 - Digging For Gold
WHAT TO DIG FOR: The _Author & Recipients___________ (Who?)
The _Setting____ (Who? When? and Why?)
The _Theme______ (What?)
WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHILE DIGGING:
About the author:
Information outside the book:
Information inside the book:
Personal references:
Indirect personal references:
About the setting:
The historical setting (when and where he wrote it):
The purpose of the book (why he wrote it):
About the theme:
General subjects:
Changes of subject (where?):
Connectives (where?):
Flow of thought:
HOW TO DIG: Observation - Outline, Read through a number of times, chart, make an acrostic, etc.
TOOLS FOR DIGGING:
Books on the whole Bible: Bible dictionaries, Bible handbooks,
Explore the Book by Sidlow Baxter, Study Bibles, Highlights of the Bible
by Ray Stedman
Books on the Bible book: Commentaries, Irving Jensen, Explore the book,
*Information on commentaries:
For __novices______ ………. to ………. __scholars_______
For __Interpretation_ ………. to ………..__application____
Little _ research____ ………. to …..Much __research____