Mobile Ed: BI205 Old Testament Exegesis: Understanding and Applying the Old Testament (15 hour course - audio)

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