NOTE: This course has two tracks, a standard track that everyone will take and an advanced,
optional track that includes the entire core of the standard track plus additional readings and an
additional praxis of a passage you will choose among 4 passages.
Week
Material Covered in Class/Assignments
1
Introduction to the Course and Hermeneutical Schools PP#1-29
2
Hermeneutical Schools, a Literal Hermeneutic and the Locus of Meaning PP#
30-55
Assignments
Required: Roy Zuck, “The What and Why of Bible Interpretation” in Basic Bible Interpretation.
Optional:
Read Bill Arp, “Authorial Intent” http://www.bbc.edu/journal/volume4_1/Authorial_Intentarp.pdf
Introduction to Observation PP# 56-71
3
Assignments
Required: Read course manual pp. 1-3
Optional: Howard Hendricks, Observation Parts 4-8. http://www.biblestudiesonline.com/Bible%20Studies/Basics/Hendricks.htm [5 @ 6 minutes each]
4
Bible Study Methods: Observation and Introduction to Interpretation
Historical Setting PP# 72-105
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 4-13
Optional: Allen Ross, “Introduction and Historical Setting” from the series The Religious World
of
Jesus @ https://bible.org/seriespage/1-introduction-and-historical-setting
Dan Wallace, “The Holy Spirit and Hermeneutics.” https://bible.org/article/holy-spiritand-hermeneutics
Bible Study Methods: Interpretation
Cultural setting and Introduction to
Literary Background PP# 106-125
5
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 14-16
Optional: Roy Zuck, “Bridging the Literary Gap” in Basic Bible Interpretation
Bible Study Methods: Interpretation
Structure, Style and Semantics of
Biblical Poetry PP# 126-168
6
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 17-25
Optional: Leland Ryken, “The Poetry of the Bible” in How to Read the Bible as Literature
Bible Study Methods: Interpretation
Grammatical Studies and
Figurative Language PP# 169-200
7
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 26-31
Optional: Roy Zuck, “Bridging the Grammatical Gap” in Basis Bible Interpretation.
8
Bible Study Methods: Praxis
Observations and Interpretive Questions for Colossians 3:1-4
PP# 201-215
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 32-34
Optional: Ralph Martin, “Approaches to New Testament Exegesis” in New Testament
Interpretation
Howard Hendricks, Interpretation” Part 9 [6 minutes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8S4ladP8j8
Howard Hendricks, Interpretation” Part 10 [6 minutes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC49MfC1LK8
Bible Study Methods: Praxis
Word Studies, Grammatical Layout
and Outline of Colossians 3:1-4
PP# 216-230
9
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 35-41
Optional: D. A. Carson, “Word-Study Fallacies” in Exegetical Fallacies.
Note: If you opt to do the second praxis in the optional track, let me know what passage you
have chosen this week. See instructions at the end of this course schedule.
Application
PP# 230-240
10
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 42-44
Optional: You have enough to do working on the second praxis!
Correlation
PP# 241-250
11
Assignments
Required: Read and complete course manual pp. 44-48
Optional: You have more than enough to do working on the second praxis!!!
Using Bible Software in your studies
(Or the prof’s’ built-in buffer)
12
Assignments
Required: Chart of Colossions.
Optional: Don’t forget to email the final paper to me by the Sunday night before the final class!