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Exodus shows us that God is a God of mercy and grace. He is patient, full of loving-kindness, faithful, and shows loving-kindness to thousands. He forgives iniquity, rebellion and sin. God is the one who reveals himself with a jealous love fo
Numbers constitutes wilderness wanderings and priestly life. The focus is on priestly ritual law which is concerned with the order of creation. Life flourishes in a well-ordered creation. Life has its source in the holiness of God. Numbers show
In Leviticus, we see that being holy is the working out of the Mosaic Covenant in worship and life. Leviticus is the calling of Moses and the people to walk in the holiness of God. Its focus is maintaining the Covenant relationship between God
In Leviticus, we see that being holy is the working out of the Mosaic Covenant in worship and life. Leviticus is the calling of Moses and the people to walk in the holiness of God. Its focus is maintaining the Covenant relationship between God
The significance of the divine name in Exodus is tied to God's salvific character for his people. God reveals his divine name to Moses and reveals the substance of his Name because it reveals the character and identity of God. God's identity is
In Exodus, we are shown that obedience to God's commands is constitutive of being the people of God and it fulfills the purpose of election. Election is not just a privilege to be enjoyed but a responsibility to be performed. The Decalogue play
In Genesis, the power of God's promise to make good on His covenant to Abraham is displayed. The result of sin is chaos and it unravels the cosmos of God's world. The Sodom and Gomorrah narrative reveals that God takes sin really seriously. It
The Creator in Genesis is also the Preserver. There is a formal and material overlap between God as Creator and God as Redeemer. As man sins, God is there to preserve. God's salvation and redemption is not limited to Israel itself but has its s
What happens with Abraham and Isaac becomes a symbol for the institute of sacrifice within the public covenant community. In another account, Jacob's struggle reveals the emergence of Israel as a people who wrestle with their God and emerge w
In this lecture, you will come to appreciate the importance of the creation, primeval, and patriarchal history for the Torah and whole of the Old Testament. The theological pattern of Creation, Sin, Death, and New Creation is a Microcosm in Gen
The Creator in Genesis is also the Preserver. There is a formal and material overlap between God as Creator and God as Redeemer. As man sins, God is there to preserve. God's salvation and redemption is not limited to Israel itself but has its s
This lecture will continue to cover the influence Spinoza's thoughts had in modernity. Spinoza believed it folly to allow the Bible an authoritative voice in philosophical investigation. To make sense of Scripture, his method of historical inqu
This lecture will shed light on the significance of TaNaK and provide a brief history of canon formation research. The lecture will look at the Three Stage Theory, Heinrich Graetz and his ideas on canon formation, and Herbert Ryle's argument fo
A revolution replaces the standard paradigm of normal science and it is during this time that Brevard Childs determines that the final form of the text is the key place where the interpretive work of the Old Testament needs to be done. Child's
Learn how Wellhausen's view of Israel's history is a move away from free and uninhibited worship to a stilted and lifeless religion based on written legislation. Wellhausen is remembered most for the idea of the Documentary Hypothesis or JEDP (
This lecture will focus on two prominent figures within the tectonic shift of ideas between pre-Modernity and Modernity: Spinoza and Descarte. Spinoza brought together the thought that the Bible is a product of human history and evolution and
Brevard Childs is known for developing four effects of Historical Criticism on defining the literal sense. For him, the object of biblical exegesis is the text itself with subject matter of which the text speaks. It is significant that the subj
What happens when Historicism and Romanticism meet? De Wette is a theologian whose ideas are a result. De Wette found in the Bible a human people and human culture that was rich in its religious experience and to enter into that religious exper
In this lecture, the distinction between ontology (being) and gnosis (knowing) is made as it pertains to the Old Testament and its people in relation to the triune God. Within the history of the interpretive tradition, Christian interpreters of
A tectonic shift of ideas occurs between the pre-Modern and Modern era with the major issue being the displacement or suspension of belief. The rise of the individual self has shaped the way we read the Bible in large ways and has an impact in
In this lecture, the Old Testament is shown to be the battleground for Christian theology. From the writing of the Torah to the New Testament, it is important to remember that an authoritative body of Scripture existed and the early church neve
Setting the Stage: This lecture is an overview of the direction the course will take in presenting the larger theological framework of the Old Testament by asking, "What is the nature of the Old Testament?" It will culminate by looking at three
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