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GETTING THE BIG PICTURE
Identify the type of literature:
Historical, Biographical, Poetic, Proverbial, Prophetic, Epistle (letter), Parable, A Gospel, Is it a combination? What combinations?
THE 5 W�s AND AN H
The 5 W�s and an H:
Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How?
Answer as many questions as you can. (Not all will be in every passage.)
WHO?
1. Who wrote it?
2. Who said it?
3. Who are the major characters?
4. Who are the people mentioned?
5. To whom is the author speaking?
6. About whom is he (the author) speaking?
WHAT?
1. What are the main events ?
2. What are the major ideas?
3. What are the major teachings?
4. What are these people like?
5. What does he (the author) talk about the most?
6. What is his purpose in saying that? (Refer to #5)
WHEN?
1. When was the passage written?
2. When did the events in the passage take place?
3. When will it happen?
4. When did he (the author) say it?
5. When did the author do it?
6. When did the main characters of the passage do it?
WHERE?
1. Where was this done?
2. Where was this said?
3. Where will it happen?
WHY?
1. Why was there a need for this to be written?
2. Why was this mentioned?
3. Why was so much or so little space devoted to this particular event or teaching?
4. Why was this reference mentioned?
5. Why should they do such and such?
HOW?
1. How is it done?
2. How did it happen?
3. How is this truth illustrated?
OBSERVATION � IDENTIFY CONTEXT
1. What is the setting or background of the passage?
2. What things, events or people are obvious to see from reading this text?
3. What primary objective is observed through repeated emphasis?
DISCERN THE MAIN THEME
Key WORDS reveal the SUBJECTS -� SUBJECTS reveal the THEME
1. List the key words found in the passage.
2. List the subjects discussed in the passage.
3. Write the main theme of the passage in your own words.
4. Write out the key verse(s) in this passage?
5. Discover the theme of each chapter.
6. Identify clearly defined segments.
Dates
Places
Topics
Doctrines
Reign of kings
Major characters
Major events
Bible Study Method taken from the book How to Study Your Bible
by Kay Arthur - founder of Precept Ministries
(c/r 1994 and published by Harvest House Publishers)
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