Once you've gone through your bible and pulled out all the historical background from the book of Philemon and Colossians, you'll want to start looking into bible dictionaries (historical background info only, sometimes dictionaries are really interpretations).Look up: Philemon, Onesimus, house church, slaves etc... then once you've gleaned all you can from both the internal (The Bible) and external (Dictionaries and other helps) historical background, you'll begin to bounce all your observations off of the historical info and come up with interpretation: what did it mean to the Original Reader.
Observations: refer to your chart/handout from first week.
Notice: pick an observation
Examine: mention every thing about the observation
Historical Background: The only binding cultural background is the internal background found in the bible.
Interpretation: What did it mean to the original readers.
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