Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Beginnings of Critical Method

• Textus Receptus and Christian Infighting

• Exploring New Testament Manuscripts

• Skepticism, Modern Science, and the Historical-Critical Method

• Beginnings of Biblical Criticism

• Challenges to Authority, Miracles, Authorship, and Prophecy

• Neologism and Shifting Philosophies

• Comparing “Myth” in Philo and the New Testament

Unit 2: Old Testament Criticism: Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries

• De Wette and the Reinterpretation of History

• Reinventing the History and Development of the Old Testament

• Revival of Confessionalism

• New Liberalism

• Identifying Sources of the Documentary Hypothesis

• Defending Old Testament Narrative and Theology

• History of Religions School

• Organizing the Psalms by Genre with the Psalms Explorer

• Beyond Literary Criticism

Unit 3: Anglo-Saxon Old Testament Scholarship Since 1800

• Characteristics of British and American Culture and Theology

• Tracking Major Events and Key Characters with the Timeline

• Critical Method Makes Inroads

• Development of Archaeology

• Divide between Liberal and Conservative

Unit 4: Modern Old Testament Criticism

• Do We Need the Old Testament?

• Systematic Theology, Salvation History, and Old Testament Unity

• Marxist Interpretation and Liberation Theology

• Current Issues in Old Testament Interpretation

• Exploring Themes in Apocalyptic Texts

Unit 5: New Testament Criticism: Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries

• Skepticism of Reimarus

• Early Rationalism: Part 1

• Early Rationalism: Part 2

• Reactions to David Strauss

• Ferdinand C. Baur and the Tübingen School

• Bruno Bauer

• Later “Lives of Jesus”

• The Final Phase

Unit 6: Anglo-Saxon New Testament Scholarship Since 1800

• New Testament Textual Studies and the Cambridge School

• English Liberalism

• The Impact of Archaeology

• English Neoconservatism

Unit 7: Modern New Testament Criticism: Jesus and the Church

• Form Criticism

• Redaction Criticism and the New Quest for the Historical Jesus

• Third Quest for the Historical Jesus

• New Testament Criticism: Jesus Quests and the Church

• Paul, Gnosticism, and Personal Redemption

• Paul, Judaism, and the Law

• Distinguishing Paul’s Use of “Law” with the Word Sense Tool

• E. P. Sanders’ Interpretation of Paul and Judaism

Unit 8: Recent Trends in Interpretation

• Inadequacies of the Historical-Critical Method

• The New Hermeneutic

• Making Peace with the Ancient World

• Literary Criticism

• Biblical Narrative: Mimesis or History?

• Sociological Approaches

• Examples of Sociological Biblical Interpretation

• Sociological Interpretation to Change Society Today

Unit 9: An Evangelical Approach to Critical Issues

• Background to Modern Evangelicalism

• Evangelical Achievements

• Evangelical Issues: Inspiration

• Evangelical Issues: Infallibility and Inerrancy

• Evangelical Issues: Evolving Attitudes toward Inerrancy

• Evangelical Issues: Validity of Old Testament as Christian Truth

• Evangelical Strengths and Weaknesses

Unit 10: An Evangelical Approach to Practical Application

• Ways of Reading the Bible

• How to Read the Bible to Preach It

• Reading Is an Art, Preaching a Gift

• Preaching and Application: Part 1

• Preaching and Application: Part 2

• Preaching and Free Interpretation

• Preaching and the Preacher: Part 1

• Preaching and the Preacher: Part 2

Conclusion

• Biblical Interpretation: The Struggle to Understand God

Details

• Title: BI352 History of Biblical Interpretation II: Seventeenth Century through the Present

• 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: 11