Basic Interpretive Principles

Genre Awareness
Original Audience
Context
Scripture Interprets Scripture
All About Jesus

Original Language
Two Seeds Two Cities
Phenomenological Language
Hebrew Idioms
Three Creeds
Word Study
Theophany
Timeline
Various Versions
Mighty Maps
Typology
Anthropomorphism
Chiasm
Verbal Aspects
Hendiadys
Personification
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Metaphor
Irony
Hyperbole
Understatement
Exodus and Exile
From/Unto
Infinite Series
Head Crush
Bride & Groom
Total Greater than Sum of Parts
What's In a Name
Five Solas
Couples Dance
Chunky Chunks
Normative Norms
Leaky Lists
Seven Covenants
Continuity
Quest/War/Romance
Creation/Fall/Redemption/Glory
Presuppositions
Sphere Sovereignty
Memorization
Meditation
Repetition
Skimming
Major on Majors
Logic
Whole Counsel
Case Laws
General Equity
Moral Ceremonial
Active and Passive
Cross-Textual Consistency
FAT
Redemptive-Historical Hermeneutics
Authorial Intent
Bias Awareness

—Rich Coffeen