Biblical Studies: How to Interpret the Bible
Overview
In this collection, Sam Storms draws upon 38 years of experience as a professor, a pastor, and an author to provide accessible and insightful commentaries, as well as general Bible reading tips. For every book of the Bible covered here, he includes detailed introductions, personal commentaries, and suggestions for further reading; for Psalms, Corinthians, and Revelations, he also includes guides for daily devotions and meditations. Through this series of hundreds of articles, Storms helps readers get more out of the Bible by giving interpretive clues and discussing controversial issues such as divorce and remarriage, infant deaths, the power of demons, and more. This volume contains general tips for interpreting the Bible and getting the most out of your reading.
Top Highlights
“prized because of its literary beauty, but is generally believed to be based on inferior Greek manuscripts” (source)
“clause is a group of words which has a verb but is only part of a sentence” (source)
“The Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (now in its 26th edition; 1979).” (source)
“meaning and significance. Meaning is what the original author intended by his words” (source)
- Title: Biblical Studies: How to Interpret the Bible
- Author: Sam Storms
- Series: Biblical Studies
- Publisher: Sam Storms
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Resource ID: LLS:BIBLICALSTUDIESINNTPT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:15:59Z
Sam Storms earned a ThM in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in intellectual history from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founder of Enjoying God Ministries, senior pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a former visiting professor of theology at Wheaton College. He has authored over two dozen books and served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.