Getting to Know Your Bible

Session 4 Canonicity and Interpretation

Canonicity

•FF Bruce, The Canon of Scripture

•Standard

Canonicity

•Two aspects

•Antiquity

•Orthodoxy

Canonicity

•Orthodoxy

•Fit the criteria laid out previously by the apostles in their writings

Interpretation

•Literal

•Historical

•Grammatical

Interpretation

•Contextual

•Allegorical

•Semi-allegorical