By Donnie V. Rader An Outline as a good preview and overview of a chapter before a detailed study is made. It likewise serves as a review and good way to summarize when the study is finished. I am convinced that an outline of a text is half of the work of interpretation. That is, …
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Understanding Figurative Language Ronny E. Hinds
By Ronny E. Hinds Among the very first books I bought, over forty years ago, was Alexander Campbell’s Christianity Restored. I must confess the reason I bought it was for the articles contained in the latter two-thirds of the book. But, through the years that has not been the reason I have gone to it …
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Looking At The Context
By Bobby Witherington “. . . how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I wrote before in a few words, by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)” (Eph. 3:3, 4). “Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the …
Considering Historical Background And Setting
By Daniel H. King The Bible And History The Bible is a literature which is filled with written depictions of occurrences which are said to have happened along a time line from the very beginning of the universe through the first century A.D. Those events which are re- corded in the Old and New Testaments may …
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