Mobile Ed: BI173 Problems in Bible Interpretation: Why Do Christians Disagree about the Bible? (4 hour course - audio)
Overview
Christians believe the Bible is God’s Word, but the specific implications behind what that means are debated. In Problems in Bible Interpretation: Why Do Christians Disagree about the Bible? (BI173), Dr. Michael Heiser examines the issues of inspiration, inerrancy, and the canon. He explores different views on what role human authors played in the writings found in the Bible and how they were inspired by God. Then he moves on to address several questions surrounding the doctrine of inerrancy: What does the term mean? How have Christians understood it historically? What constitutes an “error”? Finally, he looks at the books included in the Bible, or the canon, and how it came to be. Through a discussion of the historical development of the Christian canon, he explains the reasons why various traditions regard different books as authoritative.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: Inspiration
- Millard Erickson’s Five Categories
- Dynamic, Verbal, Dictation
- Human and Divine Element of Inspiration
Unit 2: Inerrancy
- What Does Inerrancy Mean?
- Historical Positions: Part 1
- Historical Positions: Part 2
- Inerrancy: Part 1
- Inerrancy: Part 2
- Historical Positions
- Struggle
Unit 3: What Is an Error?
- Specific Difficulties
- Israelite Cosmology
- The Waters above and below the Heavens
- “God’s Eye” View of the Created World
- Point
- Primitive Conception of Conception: Part 1
- Primitive Conception of Conception: Part 2
- Prophecies that Don’t Happen
- Number Discrepancies: Part 1
- Number Discrepancies: Part 2
- Number Discrepancies: Part 3
- New Testament Citation of Old Testament
- Differences in Gospels: Dialogue
- Differences in Gospels: Narrative Elements
- Editorial Hands
- How Do We Define Inspiration and Inerrancy?
Unit 4: Canon
- Disagreement over What Books Should Be Recognized as Inspired
- Complicating Factors
- Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Canon
- New Testament Canon
- 1 Enoch—Special Case: Part 1
- 1 Enoch—Special Case: Part 2
Conclusion
- Conclusion to the Course
Product Details
- Title: BI173 Problems in Bible Interpretation: Why Do Christians Disagree about the Bible?
- Instructor: Michael S. Heiser
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2017
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Length: 4 hours
Partially included
Dr. Michael S. Heiser was a former Scholar-in-Residence for Faithlife Corporation, the makers of Logos Bible Software. He then served as the Executive Director of the Awakening School of Theology and Ministry. His varied academic background enabled him to operate in the realm of critical scholarship and the wider Christian community. His experience in teaching at the undergraduate level and writing for the layperson both directly contributed to Logos’ goal of adapting scholarly tools for nonspecialists.
Dr. Heiser earned his PhD in Hebrew Bible and Semitic languages and holds an MA in ancient history and Hebrew studies. He was the coeditor of Old Testament Greek Pseudepigrapha with Morphology and Semitic Inscriptions: Analyzed Texts and English Translations, and he was able to do translation work in roughly a dozen ancient languages, including Biblical Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Ugaritic cuneiform. He specialized in Israelite religion (especially Israel’s divine council), contextualizing biblical theology with Israelite and ancient Near Eastern religion, Jewish binitarianism, biblical languages, ancient Semitic languages, textual criticism, comparative philology, and Second Temple period Jewish literature. In 2007 he was named the Pacific Northwest Regional Scholar by the Society of Biblical Literature.