Textbooks and Materials
- Required: Basic Bible Interpretation, by Roy Zuck
- Required: Class notes and other materials as supplied by the instructor
- Recommended: Protestant Biblical Interpretation, by Bernard Ramm
- Recommended: Biblical Hermeneutics, by Milton Terry
- Recommended: The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture, by Rene Pache
Online Class Discussion Forum (contact your instructor for login information)
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| Aims and Requirements for Hermeneutics (.pdf) | |||
| Hermeneutics Syllabus (.pdf) | |||
| Instructions for Term Paper (.pdf) | |||
| Lesson 1 | Lecture 1 - Course Introduction (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 2 | Lecture 2 - The Need for Hermeneutics (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 3 | Lecture 3 - The History of Interpretation (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 4 | Lecture 4 The Bible: A Divine Book, A Human Book (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 5 | Lecture 5 - Bridging the Cultural Gap (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 6 | Lecture 6 - Bridging the Grammatical Gap (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 7 | Lecture 7 - Bridging the Literary Gap (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 8 | Week 8 - Figures of Speech and Hebrew Poetry (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 9 | Week 9 - Types and Symbols (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 10 | Week 10 - Parables and Allegories (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 11 | Week 11 - Prophecy (.ppt) | ||
| Lesson 12 | Week 12 - Use of the OT in the NT (.ppt) |
