Melville Divinity Hall
BS551 · 3 credits · Graduate

Exegesis from the Original Texts: Method and the Reformed Exegetical Tradition

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How the Reformed churches read Scripture in Hebrew and Greek: Scripture interpreting Scripture, its divine and human authorship, typology and the redemptive-historical line. Students practice on one short passage in the original and compare Calvin, Poole and the Dutch Annotations made for the Synod of Dort's Bible.

These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.

How to begin

  1. Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
  2. Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
  3. Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
  4. Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.

Syllabus

  1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

    • Hermeneutics (16 lectures) Vern Poythress (Westminster Theological Seminary) 16 lectures (foundations, Christ in the Psalms, redemptive history, meaning and language, divine meaning, typology) Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
    • Hermeneutics in Light of the Divine Author of Scripture (Christ the Center) Vern Poythress Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
    • Hermeneutics in Light of Christ's Relationship to His Body (Christ the Center) Matthew Patton (pastor, Covenant Presbyterian Church, OPC) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
    • Hermeneutics and Homiletics (Christ the Center) Mark Winder, Jim Cassidy and Camden Bucey (Reformed Forum) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...

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