BI205 Old Testament Exegesis: Understanding and Applying the Old Testament
Overview
Old Testament Exegesis: Understanding and Applying the Old Testament (BI205) teaches how to study, interpret, and apply the Hebrew portion of the Christian Scriptures (the Old Testament). The course breaks down the exegetical process into twelve comprehensive and logical stages that fall into five overarching categories—text, observation, context, meaning, and application. It covers everything from textual criticism and Hebrew grammar, to historical and literary context, to biblical and systematic theologies in a Christ-exalting way that equips the exegete to accurately proclaim Christ and His gospel from the first three-fourths of the Bible.
Top Highlights
“For now, let me summarize what we’ve seen. A discourse typically begins with a clause that does not start with a conjunction, is carried on by a chain of vav clauses, but may include embedded units initiated either by asyndetic clauses or subordinate conjunctions that clarify, or in some way support, the primary line of thought—text blocks.” (source)
“Historical texts are ot stories. Historical narrative makes up 40–50 percent of our ot and relays a succession of contingent events one after another, usually in past time. In the historical text type, it’s wayyiqtol clauses—also known as vav consecutive imperfect clauses—that serve as the unmarked or default verb pattern. Unless other features tell us otherwise, we expect that every wayyiqtol is simply carrying ahead the storyline. This is the ‘story verb.’ When a single clause departs from the wayyiqtol pattern, we find the beginning and end of a paragraph, often.” (source)
“The unmarked or default verb pattern in historical texts is the wayyiqtol. Any change away from this form marks some special function within the discourse. The unmarked default verb pattern in anticipatory and directive texts is the weqatal. Usually, an indicative yiqtol introduces anticipatory discourse, whereas an imperative, or the equivalent, identifies directive speech. Any shift away from the weqatal then marks something special in the text, often paragraph transition.” (source)
“To begin with, we are going to see how the Hebrew coordinate conjunction ו (vav) or ‘and,’ and the lack of any of connection, which is known as ‘asyndeton,’ work together to shape text blocks—vav and asyndeton.” (source)
- Title: BI205 Old Testament Exegesis: Understanding and Applying the Old Testament
- Author: Jason S. DeRouchie
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. › Hermeneutics; Education › Bible. O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Bible. O.T.--Hermeneutics
- Resource ID: LLS:BI205DEROUCHIE
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2019-06-20T22:29:37Z
Jason S. DeRouchie (Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, MN. Previously, he served as an Associate Pastor, taught courses at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Gordon College, and served as Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Northwestern College (MN). He has published a number of articles on Hebrew language and literature, has authored a volume on Old Testament discourse analysis titled A Call to Covenant Love: Text Grammar and Literary Structure in Deuteronomy 5-11 (Gorgias, 2007), serves on the editorial board for Zondervan's new Hearing the Message of Scripture OT commentary series, is writing the volume on Deuteronomy in this series, and stands as the contributing editor for Kregel's forthcoming Old Testament thematic survey titled What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About. DeRouchie teaches adult Sunday school at Bethlehem Baptist Church, where he and his wife Teresa have been members since 2007. The DeRouchies live in Coon Rapids, MN, and have three children, Janie, Ruthie, and Isaac.
