- Context: What follows and precedes your passage? Are your pages affected by this context?
- Form criticism: What is the literary form of your passage? Are there other places in the Bible
(or related text) where this form is used and which help to interpret this passage?
- Structure: Do you detect any particular structural pattern (e.g., parallelism within your
assigned book of the Bible)? Describe the parts of your passage.
- Redaction criticism: Has your passage come through an editorial process? What changes
have been made? Explain why certain changes have been made.
- Key words: What are the theologically important words in the passage? Do these words
evoke any other parts of the Bible? Are these words used in a new way by the author of this passage? What do these words mean?
