HOW TO STUDY THE OLD TESTAMENT

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HOW TO STUDY THE OLD TESTAMENT
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About the Old Testament

• A book, part of a book, collection of books
• It is all about GOD!
• Science
• History
• Individual perspectives
• All serve for Gods self-revelation

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The Big Story and Plotline

• Eden Problem (Fee chose independence)
• Babel Problem (Fee blurred image of ourselves)
• Abraham, Moses, Joshua
• Saul, David, Solomon
• 931 BC kingdom split
• 722 BC Assyria
• 587 BC Babylon
• 539 BC Persia
• 332 BC Greece (Alexander the Great)

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Reorientation

• Not only what OT is, but what OT does
• Revelation
• We know God by hearing his story
• Revelation corrects these misconceptions
• Scripture
• Self-revelation draw assurance from Christ
• Authority
• Based on what it tells us to think and believe
• Picture of God transforms us

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Why Are You Taking This Class?
Transformation
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Fee Gods Story

• All about God (Gen 11).
• Creation
• Fall
• Redemption
• Gods story becomes our story
• Consummation

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Expectation and Procedures

• Set aside pre-conceptions by focusing on big
  picture.
• Focus
• Photo-Mosaic

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Expectation and Procedures

• What is a Plotline?
• Big picture Message, conviction, persuasive
  beliefs
• Face Value
• Nature (Genre) of Literary Issues
• Cultural Background Issues
• Focus of Revelation Issues

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Focus of Revelation Issues

• Exegesis and Hermeneutics
• Exegesis Detailed study of the Text
• Hermeneutics Science of Exegesis
• Confidence in the Results of OT Study
• Faith has to step in and cover the ground where
  exegesis and hermeneutics are insufficient (Hill
  Walton, 19).
• Do you agree?