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Literary Context Basics (3 Tips for Understanding the Bible better on your own)
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Literary Context Basics (3 Tips for Understanding the Bible better on your own)

Episode notes from The Ten Minute Bible Hour

The Bible can be tough to sort out at times, but there are a bunch of ways to make it easier to understand. The most basic tool for reading the bible better is context, but reading the Bible in context means more than just reading the sentences before and after the parts that are hard.
This video fleshes out the issue of literary context and offers three tips to understand the text better.

Historical Context Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpUylTTrKvA

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