{"id":13246,"date":"2025-12-22T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13246"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:00:23","slug":"learn-the-most-important-skill-in-biblical-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13246","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Most Important Skill in Biblical Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F6_efk-LRO4?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>This session is from the BibleProject Classroom Jonah class  taught by Dr. Tim Mackie. The entire class is available for free on the BibleProject app at https:\/\/classroom-beta.bibleproject.com\/jonah.<\/p>\n<p>How can a repeated word help us understand what the biblical authors are saying? Repeated words often:<br \/>\ncreate a theme throughout a chapter<br \/>\nlink words that are close to each other<br \/>\nlink words that are distant from each other<\/p>\n<p>In this session, we practice finding repeated keywords in different chapters of Jonah and discuss what they mean for the literary design of the book.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F6_efk-LRO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This session is from the BibleProject Classroom Jonah class taught by Dr. Tim Mackie. The entire class is available for free on the BibleProject app at https:\/\/classroom-beta.bibleproject.com\/jonah. How can a repeated word help us understand what the biblical authors are saying? Repeated words often: create a theme throughout a chapter link words that are close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1192,1194,1175,1186,1190,1185,1187,1191,1196,1176,1193,434,1183,1179,1181,1184,1182,1195,1188,615,3793,1603,1180,1178,1177,1189,3792],"class_list":["post-13246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-videos","tag-bible-interpretation-and-meaning","tag-bible-quiz-for-adults","tag-bible-quiz-for-kids","tag-bible-study-for-beginners","tag-bible-study-group-discussion","tag-bible-study-lessons","tag-bible-study-topics","tag-bible-study-with-me","tag-bible-trivia-challenge","tag-bible-trivia-facts","tag-bible-trivia-questions-and-answers","tag-biblical","tag-christian-habits","tag-christian-lifestyle-tips","tag-christian-motivation","tag-daily-christian-routine","tag-faith-based-living","tag-fun-bible-trivia-game","tag-how-to-study-the-bible","tag-important","tag-interpretation","tag-learn","tag-living-as-a-christian","tag-new-testament-trivia","tag-old-testament-quiz","tag-online-bible-study","tag-skill","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13248,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions\/13248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}