...Interpretive Journey Paper Instructions On Monday of Module/Week 8, you will submit a paper that will demonstrate an understanding of the interpretive journey through detailed work in each of the 5 major sections of this method of Bible study. This paper will reflect a personal and independent study of a selected passage of Scripture. As such, bibliographic resources are limited to course tools (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary) and similar resources. In order to complete this assignment you will first select 1 of these 3 passages: A. Deuteronomy 22:8 B. Acts 6:1–7 C. 1 Peter 5:6–7 Once you have selected a passage, you will then take the verse through the interpretive journey process. Your answer must engage each of the following steps. Step 1: Grasp the text in their town. Summarize the original situation and the meaning of the text for the biblical audience. Step 2: Measure the width of the river to cross. What are the differences between the biblical situation and our situation? Step 3: Cross the Principlizing Bridge. List the theological principle(s) communicated by the passage. Step 4: Consult the biblical map. How does the theological principle fit with the rest of the Bible? Step 5: Grasp the text in our town. How should individual Christians today live out the theological principle? This assignment must be 2–3 pages in length and use current Turabian format. While the amount of material will vary...
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...Hello Carter and Barker (2010) describe bibliography as a twofold scholarly discipline—the organized listing of books (enumerative bibliography) and the systematic, description of books as physical objects (descriptive bibliography). These two distinct concepts and practices have separate rationales and serve differing purposes. Innovators and originators in the field include W. W. Greg, Fredson Bowers, Philip Gaskell, and G. Thomas Tanselle. Bowers (1949) refers to enumerative bibliography as a procedure that identifies books in “specific collections or libraries,” in a specific discipline, by an author, printer, or period of production (3). He refers to descriptive bibliography as the systematic description of a book as a material or physical artifact. Analytical bibliography, the cornerstone of descriptive bibliography, investigates the printing and all physical features of a book that yield evidence establishing a book's history and transmission (Feather 10). It is the preliminary phase of bibliographic description and provides the vocabulary, principles and techniques of analysis that descriptive bibliographers apply and on which they base their descriptive practice. Descriptive bibliographers follow specific conventions and associated classification in their description. Titles and title pages are transcribed in a quasi-facsimile style and representation. Illustration, typeface, binding, paper, and all physical elements related to identifying a book follow formulaic...
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...Bibliology: Inspiration and Inerrancy of the Bible Dana Peebles THEO 201: THEOLOGY SURVEY 1 Writing Style: APA Professor Gaston July 5, 2014 Well, hello there. I am so glad you asked me why in the world I would be studying the Bible, and how can I possibly consider it to be authoritative. I must say, that when I first started reading it I found that I had more questions than answers and really wasn’t sure of its authenticity myself. However, what I found was that within the pages of the Bible, came forth the very answers I was looking for. For so long, I found scripture confusing and contradictive. But then, I read that “God is not the author of confusion, but a God of peace.” (1 Corinthians 14:33) With that being said, I would love to discuss further with you what it is that I understand the Bible to be. The Bible is an extraordinary book, and it makes some pretty impressive statements. It records details of creation, life, moral laws of God, the history of man’s rebellion against God, and the proclamation of God’s redemption for those who trust and believe in Him. Also, the Bible is God’s revelation to us. If we are feeling lost, it gives us hope for how we should live, why we exist, what happens when we die, and what our meaning and purpose is in life. When you think of the word “authoritative,” it can have several different meanings. The most common one I believe is the fact that we are not in control, and that means we are usually submissive to people...
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...Anthony Henderson Turabian Theo-201 D16 Essay on Bibliology: Inspiration and Inerrancy of the Bible I n today’s society many people question the authority and inerrancy of the Bible. They want concrete proof of the inerrancy of the Bible and they question the inspiration and ability of the writers. When we say the Bible has authority, we must also show where the authority comes from. “Authority is the right and power to command, enforce laws, exact obedience, determine or judge”. Many people do not understand how much authority a book written thousands of years ago actually commands. The authority comes from God because the Bible is the Word of God. “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” We know God is truth and the Bible is His word. This knowledge leads us to conclude that the Bible is authoritative and true. The Bible is the inspired Word of God given to the writers of the scripture. “The content of the Bible teaches that it was given by the process of inspiration of God so that the words were God’s Word and that they are accurate and reliable, hence they are authoritative”. We read in the Bible how the prophets did not use their words, but were moved by the Spirit to speak God’s Words. We also see that the Spirit led them to write what God wanted to be written. The Bible is inspired, or “God-breathed”. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness”. The question...
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...Misquoting Jesus: The story behind who changed the Bible and why After finishing reading Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman, I want to deliver some comments on the book, as well as the way Ehrman presented his argument. On the overall, this book is easy to read and understand. That is the purpose of Ehrman when he wrote the book on textual criticism for a lay audience “…who know nothing about textual criticism but who might like to learn something about how scribes were changing scripture and about how we can recognize where they did so”. I think this is also the main thesis of Misquoting Jesus. Throughout this book, Ehrman wants to point out that through long period of transmission, “the Bible is not inerrant at all but contains mistakes” . Also, the targeted audiences of Ehrman are not specifically Christians, but whoever has interest in the field of history, religion. In this paper, I will go chapter by chapter and examine Ehrman’s thesis. In the introduction, Ehrman begins with his personal background and reveals how the New Testament affected his life in general and his spiritual life in particular. He was born and grew up in a “churchgoing but not particularly a religious family”. However everything was changed after he joined Campus Life Youth for Christ club, which later on led him to Moody Bible Institute where he got his diploma. His education continued at Wheaton College and Princeton. During the time in Princeton,...
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...A Guide to Writing the Literary Analysis Essay I. INTRODUCTION: the first paragraph in your essay. It begins creatively in order to catch your reader’s interest, provides essential background about the literary work, and prepares the reader for your major thesis. The introduction must include the author and title of the work as well as an explanation of the theme to be discussed. Other essential background may include setting, an introduction of main characters, etc. The major thesis goes in this paragraph usually at the end. Because the major thesis sometimes sounds tacked on, make special attempts to link it to the sentence that precedes it by building on a key word or idea. A) Creative Opening/Hook: the beginning sentences of the introduction that catch the reader’s interest. Ways of beginning creatively include the following: 1) A startling fact or bit of information Example: Nearly two hundred citizens were arrested as witches during the Salem witch scare of 1692. Eventually nineteen were hanged, and another was pressed to death (Marks 65). 2) A snatch of dialogue between two characters Example: “It is another thing. You [Frederic Henry] cannot know about it unless you have it.” “ Well,” I said. “If I ever get it I will tell you [priest].” (Hemingway 72). With these words, the priest in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms sends the hero, Frederic, in search of the ambiguous “it” in his life. 3) A meaningful quotation (from the book you are analyzing...
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...Jalena Wilson Liberty University THEO 104-D47 March 31, 2016 Prof. Daniel Bannister Some of the most convincing arguments for the reliability of Scriptures goes back to the qualifications of the historian. Historians who do not have a credible name, people will not take their writings seriously. In an interview regarding the “General Reliability of the Gospels”, Mark Strauss, asked the question of just how reliable the historians are that produced the documents. The people that read the documents felt like the documents that were hand copied were not the originals then they would not believe anything that they have read. A person might say that since the original copies are not present then how could the documents be real or reliable? In the video, “Reliability of the NT Manuscripts”, Mark Strauss, stated that there were over 5000 copies of the New Testament. Since over 5000 copies are present, that makes for a very reliable source for people to know that these documents are for real. It is hard evidence so therefore, highly reliable. To guarantee that the scriptures are of the Word of God, they share qualities of inspiration such as: guidance, personality, words, and results (Inspiration: Guaranteeing the Word of Scripture, pg., 59-72). In assuring the authenticity of the text, the lower criticism deals with text containing a view of determining the original manuscript. The higher criticism deals with the area of authorship, sources, dates, and historical matters...
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...English I Short Answer Single Selection Scoring Guide March 2015 Copyright © 2015, Texas Education Agency. All rights reserved. Reproduction of all or portions of this work is prohibited without express written permission from Texas Education Agency. Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. Then fill in the answer on your answer document. In Emory’s Gift, Charlie is a 13-year-old boy just out of seventh grade. His mother’s death and his father’s grief leave Charlie feeling isolated at school, at home, and even at the junior-lifesaving training class he attends, where he practices his lifesaving skills on seventh-graders, otherwise known as sevies. In the excerpt below, Charlie has returned home after class and has walked to the creek to go fishing. from Emory’s Gift by W. Bruce Cameron 1 During the spring the waters of the creek were dark and cold, a sharp contrast from the milky pool water from which I’d been saving sevies all morning. From bank to bank the stream was more than thirty feet. In the summer, though, with the runoff down to a trickle, the creek bed was mainly dry, littered with rocks and mud and tree branches. The creek itself shrank back until it was only six feet wide, hugging the far bank and deep enough to swim in. That’s where the fish liked to lurk, up under the tree root overhang. From the base of our hill the creek had only another couple hundred yards of independence before it joined the river, adding...
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...Statistics Final Review 1.|Using the z-table (Table E), find the critical value (or values) for a = .08 two-tailed test.| |A) 1.4051 B) 1.7507 C) 1.4051 D) 1.7507| 2.|A report states that 38% of home owners had a vegetable garden. How large a sample is needed to estimate the true proportion of home owners who have vegetable gardens to within 5% with 90% confidence?| |A) 64 B) 128 C) 255 D) 510| 3.|If the equation for the regression line is y = –8x + 5, then the intercept of this line is| |A) 10 B) 5 C) –3 D) –8| 4.|For the samples summarized below, test the hypothesis at =.05 that the two variances are equal.|Variance|Number of data values|Sample 1|25|7|Sample 2|9|17|| A)|Accept the hypothesis because the test value 7.72 is greater than the critical value 3.34.| B)|Reject the hypothesis because the test value 2.78 is less than the critical value 3.16.| C)|Reject the hypothesis because the test value 7.72 is greater than the critical value 3.16.| D)|Accept the hypothesis because the test value 2.78 is less than the critical value 3.34.| 5.|For the conjecture "The average age of students in this class is 23", the null hypothesis is:| A)|We accept the hypothesis that the average age of students in this class is 23| B)|The average age of students in this class is 23| C)|The average age of students in this class is not 23| D)|We reject the hypothesis that he average age of students in this class is 23| 6.|Compute...
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...probability theory to understand how the process of taking a random sample will blur the information in a population. But first, we need to understand why and how the information is blurred. Sampling Variability Although the average social networking hours for all US residents is a fixed number, the average of a sample of 100 residents depends on precisely which sample is taken. In other words, the sample mean is subject to “sampling variability”. The problem is that by reporting x alone, we don’t take account of the variability caused by the sampling procedure. If we had polled different residents, we might have gotten a different average social networking hours. In general, the characteristics of the observed distribution (mean, median, variance, range, IQR, etc.), change from sample to sample, and may never exactly match the population quantities. To visualize properties of sampling distributions, we will use the sampling lab, and the very nice website at: http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html Statistical Inference: A body of...
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...1. Results Interpretation: What do each of the following variance results tell us about the Clinic (i.e., what's the good news and what's the bad news)? Analyze in the aggregate and for each product line, as appropriate. If an analysis applies to more than one product line, you may combine product lines in your discussion for convenience. Use of bullet points are fine and, to the extent possible, encouraged. Profit (total) variance = actual profit – static profit Revenue= Member months x premium We see that the overall profit is -$329,366 than what was expected . What caused this variation? When it comes to revenue, ideally HMOs would like to see enrollment high and utilization low along with costs down making profit high. The main contributors to profit variances are: Revenue issues, Cost issues, or BOTH. Revenue – Cost= Profit. HMOs make money through member months (enrollment) x premiums. • The main issue with total profit variance is insufficient revenue from PC Commercial and increased costs from the other three product lines due to high utilization from which created negative variances causing decreased profits. • The static budget expected margin was 12.7% The actual profit was significantly less than static budget with the actual total margin cost being at 2.7% Revenue Variance: • The PMPM rate increased in PC comm. the biggest provider, which impacted its revenue through decreased enrollment. Its enrollee amounts were less than the aggregates...
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...Revere Street Working Paper Series Financial Economics 272-18 Mean-Variance Analysis versus Full-Scale Optimization Out of Sample First Version: November 11, 2005 This Draft: December 13, 2005 Timothy Adler Windham Capital Management, LLC 5 Revere Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617 234-9459 tadler@windhamcapital.com Abstract For three decades, mean-variance analysis has served as the standard procedure for constructing portfolios. Recently, investors have experimented with a new optimization procedure, called full-scale optimization, to address certain limitations of mean-variance optimization. Specifically, mean-variance optimization assumes that returns are normally distributed or that investor preferences are well approximated by mean and variance. Full-scale optimization relies on sophisticated search algorithms to identify the optimal portfolio given any set of return distributions and based on any description of investor preferences. Full-scale optimization yields the truly optimal portfolio in sample, whereas the mean-variance solution is an approximation to the insample truth. Both approaches to portfolio formation, however, suffer from estimation error. Mean-variance analysis requires investors to estimate the means and variances of all assets and the covariances of all asset pairs. To the extent the out-of-sample experience of these parameters departs from the in-sample parameter values, the mean-variance approximation will be even less accurate. Full-scale optimization requires...
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...PROC FREQ [DATA=dataset] [ORDER=FREQ|INTERNAL|DATA]; [TABLES vars ... [/ [MISSING] [NOCUM] ;] DATA; INPUT dept$ pos$; CARDS; CM CLK CM MGR BA CLK BA CLK CM MGR EE MGR EE CLK CM CLK CM MGR BA CLK BA CLK CM MGR EE MGR EE CLK RUN; PROC FREQ ORDER=FREQ; TABLES dept*pos / MISSING NOCUM; RUN; Frequency‚ Percent ‚ Row Pct ‚ Col Pct ‚CLK ‚MGR ‚ Total ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆ CM ‚ 2 ‚ 4 ‚ 6 ‚ 14.29 ‚ 28.57 ‚ 42.86 ‚ 33.33 ‚ 66.67 ‚ ‚ 25.00 ‚ 66.67 ‚ ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆ BA ‚ 4 ‚ 0 ‚ 4 ‚ 28.57 ‚ 0.00 ‚ 28.57 ‚ 100.00 ‚ 0.00 ‚ ‚ 50.00 ‚ 0.00 ‚ ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆ EE ‚ 2 ‚ 2 ‚ 4 ‚ 14.29 ‚ 14.29 ‚ 28.57 ‚ 50.00 ‚ 50.00 ‚ ‚ 25.00 ‚ 33.33 ‚ ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒˆ Total 8 6 14 57.14 42.86 100.00 Or we can use he WEIGHT statement specifies a numeric variable with a value that represents the frequency of the observation. DATA; INPUT dept$ pos$ weight; CARDS; CM CLK 1 CM MGR 2 BA CLK 2 EE MGR 1 ...
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...[Type the company name] | [Type the document title] | [Type the document subtitle] | | | [Pick the date] | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 Analysis and methods section 3 Do charges incurred by a patient depend on the type of insurance the patient has? If so how? 5 Do charges incurred by patients depend on which doctor treats them? If so how? 5 Bibliography 7 Appendix 8 Executive Summary Hospital are required to bill for individual items or services provided to a patient. Patients admitted to hospitals are charged for their room, supplies, drugs, labs, x-rays, operating room time and other care. It is important to know that hospitals submit a bill to the insurance company for all the services provided to the patient and the payor determines the amount owed to the hospital based upon the insurance company’s contract with the hospital for specific services [ (Henry Ford Health) ]. Introduction The purpose of this case study is to understand the relationship between hospital charges for certain physicians and insurance carriers. Cost finding and cost analysis are the techniques of allocating data that we were provided as part of the case study. The information that we are going to use to analyze...
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...Hypothesis Testing- Practice Questions Q: 1 A local school board member wants to know if sophomore students at Lincoln High School have approximately the same reading level as the state average for tenth graders. The state average is 150 words per minute with a standard deviation of 15. The level of the test is to be set at .05. A random sample size of 100 tenth graders has been drawn, and the resulting average is 157 words per minute. Q: 2 A can of peeled whole tomatoes is supposed to contain an average of 19 ounces of tomatoes (excluding juice). The actual weight is normally distributed random variable whose standard deviation is known to be 1.9 ounces. A random sample of 25 cans yield 18 ounces as the average weight. At 1% level of significance, test the hypothesis that the mean weight is below 19 ounces. Q: 3 A U.S. dime is supposed to weight 2.268 grams with a SD of 0.026 grams. A random sample of 15 circulated dimes showed a mean weight of 2.256 grams. Test the hypothesis, under the assumption that data is normally distributed, the mean weight of all the circulated dimes lower than the specification. Q: 4 A company currently pays its production employees a mean wage of $15.00 per hour with a standard deviation of $2.40. The company is planning to build a new factory and is considering several locations. The availability of labor at a rate less than $15.00 per hour is a major factor in the location decision. For one location, a sample of 40 workers showed a current mean...
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