Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Concept of Scripture: Revelation and Its Forms

• Revelation Defined

• Personal Relationship and Communication

• Finding Verses Where God Speaks about Himself

• Speech: The Preferred Mode of Communication

• Human Hearing and the Bible

• Spoken and Written Words: Part 1

• Spoken and Written Words: Part 2

• Searching for Casuistic Laws in Logos

• The Character of Revelation

Unit 2: Jewish Interpretation in New Testament Times

• General Themes of Jewish Interpretation

• Exploring the Connection Between Jesus and Israel with the Passage Guide

• Literal and Midrashic Interpretation

• Midrashic Interpretation: Part 2

• Pesher Interpretation

• Allegorical Interpretation: Philo

Unit 3: Early Christian Use of the Old Testament

• General Principles

• Jesus Christ’s Teaching

• Paul’s Preaching

• Acts and Hebrews

Unit 4: Formation of the Christian Canon of Scripture

• What Is the Canon?

• Establishment of the Old Testament Canon

• Discovering Different Canons Using the Canon Comparison Interactive

• Establishment of the New Testament Canon

• The Canon and the Early Church

• Heretics and the Canon

• Scripture and Creedal Formation

Unit 5: The Four Senses of Interpretation

• The Greek Background

• Origen’s Basic Principles

• The Literal and Higher Senses of Scripture

• The Moral, Spiritual, and Anagogical Senses of Scripture

Unit 6: Medieval Exegesis

• Jerome and the Latin Bible

• God’s Ways of Speaking

• Filtering the Timeline to Study Christian Interpreters

• The Literal Sense of Interpretation

• The Commentary Style (ca. 1080–1150)

• The Medieval Legacy: What We Still Do Today

• The New Synthesis

• Lectio,Disputatio,Praedicatio, and the Decline of Spiritual Interpretation

• Thomism

Unit 7: Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation

• John Wycliffe and Jan Hus

• The Renaissance: Lorenzo Valla and Onward

• Martin Luther (1483–1546)

• John Calvin (1509–1564): Part 1

• John Calvin (1509–1564): Part 2

• The Authority of Scripture

Unit 8: Orthodox Protestant Hermeneutics

• The Supremacy of Scripture

• The Covenant Principle

• Interpretation of the Covenant

• Application of Orthodox Protestant Hermeneutics

• Strengths and Weaknesses of Orthodox Protestant Hermeneutics

Conclusion

• Concluding the Course

Details

• Title: BI351 History of Biblical Interpretation I: Second Temple Judaism through the Reformation

• Instructor: Gerald L. Bray

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

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

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 8