Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Define the interpretive issue for each of the ten difficult passages

• Analyze and critique common traditional interpretations for each of the passages

• Outline and defend a biblically solid interpretation for each

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and Course

Unit 1: Tattoos (Lev 19:28)

• Interpretative Issue (Lev 19:28)

• Immediate Literary Context (Lev 19:28)

• Expanded Literary Context (Lev 19:28)

• Conclusion (Lev 19:28)

Unit 2: Take not Your Holy Spirit from Me (Psa 51:10–11)

• Interpretive Issue (Psa 51:10–11)

• New Testament Literary Context (Rom 5:5; 8:9–11)

• Promise of a New Covenant (Jer 31:31–33)

• Promise of Holy Spirit (Ezek 36:24–27; Joel 2:28–29)

• Holy Spirit in the Old Testament

• Conclusion (Psa 51:10–11)

Unit 3: “Foreign” Fire (Lev 10:1–3)

• Interpretive Issue (Lev 10:1–3)

• “Unauthorized” Fire?

• Sacred Space

Unit 4: Samson’s Plans vis-à-vis God’s Will (Judg 14:1–4)

• Interpretive Issue (Judg 14:1–4)

• Interpretive Pointer (Judg 14:4)

• Man’s Plans vis-à-vis God’s Will

• Joseph’s Story

Unit 5: Secrets vis-à-vis Revelation (Deut 29:29)

• Interpretive Issue (Deut 29:29)

• Importance of Context (Deut 29:29)

• Historical and Literary Context (Deut 29:29)

Unit 6: “Guardian Angels”? (Matt 18:10)

• Interpretive Issue (Matt 18:10)

• Angelic Protection (Psa 91:11–12)

• Angelic Mediation

• Heavenly Council

• Heavenly Books

Unit 7: Firstborn of Creation (Col 1:15)

• Interpretive Issue (Col 1:13–17)

• Israel as “Firstborn” (Exod 4:21–23)

• David as “Firstborn” (Psa 89:20–29)

• “Firstborn” Indicating Preeminence

• Literary Context (Col 1:15, 19)

• Conclusion: Preeminence not Chronology

Unit 8: Ascending, Descending, Captives, and Gifts (Eph 4:8–9)

• Interpretive Issue (Eph 4:8–9)

• Old Testament Context (Psa 68:18)

• Paul, Jesus, and the Old Testament

• Ascending and Descending (Eph 4:9–10)

• Jesus and the Holy Spirit

Unit 9: Unworthy Approach to the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor 11:27–30)

• Interpretive Issue (1 Cor 11:27–30)

• Three Key Questions

• Mistreating the Poor

• Correcting Behavior

• Conclusion (1 Cor 11:33–34)

Unit 10: Enoch Prophesied (Jude 14–15)

• Interpretive Issue (Jude 14–15)

• What Makes a Prophet?

• Value of Extrabiblical Texts

Conclusion

• Continuing to Learn with Logos
  
  

Details

• Title: BI164 Problems in Bible Interpretation: Difficult Passages IV

• Instructor: Michael S. Heiser

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2020

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 2