What do we want our FAQ to say

Question

We have been in beta for over 50 days now and so far our FAQ has simply said:

This is a free, community driven Q&A for professors, theologians, and those interested in exegetical analysis of biblical texts.

We, as a community, have complete, free reign over this very first section of our FAQ. We can put anything in there we want.

Some excellent examples:

• Judaism.SE
  All three first questions ("What kind of questions can I ask here?", "Notes", and "Why do I see references around the site to 'mi.yodeya'?" are part of their first paragraph

• Christianity.SE
  Their first four questions are part of the first paragraph

• Programmers.SE
  Both of the first two questions "What kind of questions can I ask here?" and "What about subjective questions?" are in their first, editable section.

Given those examples, we can obviously add more questions, provided they are in the first section.

So, with this in mind:

What do you want our FAQ to say?

Answer 1

Biblical Hermeneutics–Stack Exchange is for anyone who wants to explore what a Biblical text means (exegesis) using techniques or rules of interpretation (hermeneutics).

We welcome Jewish, Christian, Atheist and other viewpoints as long as they take seriously the process of understanding the Biblical texts. The answers we rate most highly are persuasive and cite sources where appropriate.

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If your question is about...

• interpretation of a specific Bible passage
• hermeneutical approaches
• translation of Biblical texts
• historical context (with regards to a particular text)
• source criticism

... then this is the right place to ask

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Questions that do not arise from a Biblical text are off-topic unless they are about hermeneutical approaches. Not sure? you can find much more detail and all the nuances on our meta site

Please look around to see if your question has been asked before. It’s also OK to ask and answer your own question.