Develop a new level of competency in interpreting the New Testament with Dr. William Klein’s guidance and insight on New Testament genres. Learn how to interpret the different genres found in the New Testament epistles. Distinguish which events in Acts are meant to be descriptive, describing what happened, and which are meant to be prescriptive, instructing on how to live. Discover how the book of Revelation combines three genres, and how this affects its interpretation.
Dr. Klein concludes each unit with practice exercises. He challenges you to interpret a passage using the methods he describes, and then shows you step-by-step how he would interpret it.
Introduction
Introduction
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
9m
Introductory Matters
The Bible as Literature
4m
Develop Reading Proficiency
5m
Suggested Resources
5m
The Gospels
Definition of Gospel Genre
11m
Creating Collections and Using Factbook to Search Gospels
6m
Gospel Genre Resources
4m
Historical Trustworthiness
7m
Using the Louw-Nida Numbers and Parallel Passages in the Gospels
7m
A Reading Strategy
10m
Using Interactive Media Datasets in Gospel Research
7m
The Gospels’ Audience, Part 1
6m
The Gospels’ Audience, Part 2
8m
Kingdom of God
8m
Ethics of Jesus
7m
Interpretation Exercise 2.1: Parables and Allegory
7m
Principles for Interpreting Parables
9m
Interpretation Exercise 2.2: The Tower Parable; Tares Parable
10m
The Book of Acts
The Genre of Acts
9m
Dataset Tracking of Narrative Characters in Acts
5m
Resources on Acts
5m
Think Vertically
12m
The Significance of Pentecost
9m
Acts as Narrative
7m
What Is Normative?
11m
Interpretation Exercise 3.1: The Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8)
10m
Using Literary Types to Find Narrative Patterns in Acts
6m
Epistles
Defining the Genre
10m
Defining an Epistle
9m
Using a Gospel Harmony and Interactive Media with Epistles
5m
Epistle Resources
4m
Interpretive Principles: Function
9m
Interpretive Principles: Historical-Cultural Background and Grammar