Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Approach the Old Testament text from multiple helpful scholarly viewpoints

• Identify the genre, translation issues, and key terms of many prominent texts from the Old Testament

• Approach passages of Scripture, looking for elements that uncover their literary content and historical setting

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Interpretive Task

• What Is Exegesis?

• Why Hebrew Exegesis of the Old Testament?

• Overview of the Interpretive Process: TOCMA

Unit 2: Text Boundaries

• Basic Rules for Text Boundaries

• Identifying Text Blocks: Vavand Asyndeton

• Text Blocks in Genesis: TheTholedoth

• Distinguishing Text Types

• Delimiting Paragraphs

• Hebrew Discourse Markers: WayehiandWehayah

• Citation Formulas

• Text Boundaries for Exodus 19:4–6

Unit 3: Text Criticism

• Overview of Text Criticism

• Book Titles, Arrangement, and the Masorah

• The Textual Apparatus

• The Most Important Texts and Versions

• Some Common Scribal Errors

• Guidelines for Text Criticism

• Text Criticism in Exodus 19:4–6

Unit 4: Translation

• Making Your Translation

• Engaging Different Translations and Translation Theory

• The Importance of Day Six in Genesis 1

• Made for Praise in Zephaniah 3:20

• Translation of Exodus 19:4–6

Unit 5: Grammar

• A Man After God’s Own Heart? (1 Sam 13:14)

• What Is Grammar?

• Clauses and Sentences

• Delimiting Clauses and the Thought-Flow of Exodus 19:4–6

• Markers of Immediate Significance

• Inference Markers

• Thought-Flow of Genesis 12:1–3

• Verbless Clauses: Subject vs. Predicate

• The Grammar of the Shema (Deut 6:4)

• Text Blocks, Reported Speech, and Embedded Discourse

• Functions of Marked Clauses: Part 1

• Functions of Marked Clauses: Part 2

• Determining the Apodosis in Exodus 19:5–6

• The Thought-Flow of Exodus 19:4–6

• The Function of Kiin Exodus 19:5

• The Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible: An Overview

• The Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bibleon Exodus 19:4–6

Unit 6: Structure

• Step One: Capturing the Logical Relationships

• Logical Relationships in Genesis 12:1–3

• Logical Relationships in Habakkuk 3:17–19

• Logical Relationships in Exodus 19:4–6

• Step Two: Exegetical Outlining

• Exegetical Outlining: The Process in Genesis 12:1–3

• Exegetical Outline of Habakkuk 3:17–19

• Exegetical Outline of Exodus 19:4–6

Unit 7: Genre

• Genre and Its Relationship to Exodus 19:4–6

• Putting Genre within Its Biblical Context

• Genre Analysis and the Old Testament’s Polemical Theology

• Differences of Genre and the Question of Historicity

• Psalm Genres

• Psalms of Lament, Trust, Thanksgiving, and Praise

• Benefits and Cautions to Genre Analysis in the Psalms

• The Distinctive Nature of Biblical Narrative

• Biblical Narrative: Factual History or Myth?

• Principles for Interpreting Old Testament Narrative

• Interpreting the Historical Narrative in 1 Kings 17

• The Distinctive Nature of Yahweh Prophecy

• The Categories of Prophetic Oracles

• Principles for Interpreting Old Testament Prophecy: Part 1

• Principles for Interpreting Old Testament Prophecy: Part 2

• Law as a Subset of Prophecy

• General Characteristics of Biblical Proverbs

• Reconsidering Proverbs 22:6

• Are There Ever Absolute Proverbs?

Unit 8: Word Studies

• Understanding Your Lexicons and Theological Wordbooks

• Principles for Using Your Lexicon and Performing Word Studies

• Four Factors to Consider When Doing Word Studies

• Segullahin Exodus 19:5: Part 1

• Segullahin Exodus 19:5: Part 2

• Zera'in the Old Testament

• Yahweh in Zephaniah

Unit 9: Historical Context

• Key Questions for Assessing Historical Context

• Key Spheres in Which to Establish Historical Context

• Shared Assumptions and the Bible’s Clarity

• Engaging Historical Context: Errors and Guidelines

• The Historical Context of 1 Samuel 13:14

• Geographical Details in Deuteronomy 1:1

• The Historical Context of Exodus 19:4–6

Unit 10: Literary Context

• Grasping Literary Context

• The Old Testament in Ten Minutes

• The Literary Flow of Psalms

• Psalm 121 in Its Literary Context

• Flow of Thought in the Book of the Twelve

• Exodus 19:4–6 in Its Literary Context: Part 1

• Exodus 19:4–6 in Its Literary Context: Part 2

Unit 11: Biblical Theology

• Presuppositions: Part 1

• Presuppositions: Part 2

• Task

• Salvation-Historical Connections: Part 1

• Salvation-Historical Connections: Part 2

• Literary-Canonical Connections

• Relationship of the Testaments

• Centrality of Christ

• The Bible’s Frame, Form, Focus, and Fulcrum

• A Kingdom of Priests: Part 1

• A Kingdom of Priests: Part 2

Unit 12: Systematic Theology

• What Is Systematic Theology?

• Exodus 19:4–6: Soteriology

• Exodus 19:4–6: Missiology

• Ecclesiology and Eschatology (Zeph 3:9–10)

Unit 13: Pastoral Theology

• The Importance and Challenge of Applying the Old Testament

• Ten Reasons Why the Old Testament Is Still Important

• Old Testament Written for Christians: Part 1

• Old Testament Written for Christians: Part 2

• Guidelines for Application and Exodus 19:4–6: Part 1

• Guidelines for Application and Exodus 19:4–6: Part 2

• Establishing the Law’s Relevance for Christians

• Assessing the Threefold Division of the Law

• Guidelines for Applying the Law

• House Building (Deut 22:8)

• Gender Confusion (Deut 22:5)

• Sabbath Keeping: Part 1

• Sabbath Keeping: Part 2

• Applying Old Testament Promises: Challenge and Necessity

• Guidelines for Applying Old Testament Promises: Part 1

• Guidelines for Applying Old Testament Promises: Part 2

• Kept in Perfect Peace in Isaiah 26:3

• Preaching the Gospel from the Old Testament: Part 1

• Preaching the Gospel from the Old Testament: Part 2

Conclusion

• Overview and Conclusion
  
  

Details

• Title: BI205 Old Testament Exegesis: Understanding and Applying the Old Testament

• Instructor: Jason DeRouchie

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

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

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 15