After having a great conversation with some friends in regards to interpreting Scripture I came away with a series of questions:

1.) How important is "literary context" to understanding the Bible properly?

2.) What are several principles that I could use to guide me in my practice of interpretation?

3.) What is the difference between immediate context, book context, and Bible context?

4.) Which one of these do you think is most useful for me to understand in hermeneutics?

5.) If I had to teach a class on interpretation, how could I explain the task of understanding the literary context of a passage?

6.) Why would it be important in your opinion?

7.) What problems could arise if someone doesn't take the literary context into consideration?

What references could I seek out to learn more about literary context?