Interpretation-Hermeneutics

The author of this theological essay on the book of Daniel is a German geologist and part-time professor at Friedensau University. According to the back cover, his goal in writing this book on Daniel was to find a new approach to the book divorced from the church’s traditional understanding of Da...

Introduction God gave laws for His people to express and exemplify in their lives commitment to a relationship with Him. Thus, it should not be surprising that the interpretation and application of biblical laws are often a matter of discussion among believers. And to make the subject even more c...

Pautas para interpretar las Escrituras [Guidelines for the Interpretation of Scripture] (Lima, Peru: Idemerjos editors— Universidad Peruana Unión, 2015), trans. Joel Iparraguirre, xiv + 162 pp. US$10.00. Modern hermeneutics is in a crisis! It is confused, disoriented, and in a state of revolution...

The Hebrew text of Genesis 3:6 appears to imply that Adam was with Eve in the scene of temptation. The King James Version, offers this word-by-word rendering: “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,...

The Hebrew text of Genesis 3:6 appears to imply that Adam was with Eve in the scene of temptation. The King James Version, offers this word-by-word rendering: “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,...

Significant changes in the scholarly approach to Scripture have taken place over the past several decades. The historical-critical method, which dominated biblical interpretation in the twentieth century, while still employed, is far less influential compared to literary and reader-focused method...

The Seventh-day Adventist Church was influenced in its belief of conditional immortality by some in the Millerite movement, particularly George Storrs, one of its most influential leaders in the late summer and early fall of 1844. It was around 1840 that Storrs, still a Methodist preacher, beca...

Gluder Quispe, The Apocalypse in Seventh-Day Adventist Interpretation, Lima: Universidad Peruana Unión, 2013. xii + 354 pp. US$20.00. Summary This is the published version of the Ph.D. dissertation of Gluder Quispe, professor of Adventist Studies and New Testament Interpretation at the Peruvian U...

An expanded version of this article was published in Alberto R. Timm, “Miniature Symbolization and the Year-Day Principle of Prophetic Interpretation”. A basic hermeneutical component of the historicist school of prophetic interpretation is the so-called “year-day principle.” Those who advocate t...

When people ask questions of a biblical or theological nature, it happens that they request as an answer one clear Bible text, a “Thus says the Lord” in order to have the respective issue explained or settled. While it is highly commendable and while it is the Adventist approach to rely on Script...