Reading the Incident at the Pool Called Beth-zatha (John 5:1–16) Through the Lenses of Dominant Introverted Feeling, Dominant Extraverted Feeling, and Dominant Extraverted Thinking: Evaluating Text Differently

Abstract The sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics focused initially on the four distinctive voices of the two perceiving functions (sensing and intuition) and of the two judging functions (thinking and feeling). Subsequent studies have introduced the additional nuance of distinguishing between the introverted and the extraverted expressions of these four functions. The present study brings into focus the distinctive voices of three of the four judging function-orientations, drawing on the involvement of 22 type-aware participants exploring in type-alike groups the incident at the pool called Beth-zatha narrated in John 5:1–16.