Spring 2025
The first section of the course will begin with a study of the unity of the Bible as a whole. Is this unity to be viewed in terms of two unique witnesses to a single theological subject matter, or as a single story-line or metanarrative running from Genesis to Revelation? Are history, story, and narrative the basic categories by which Scripture is framed, or is the category of canon hermeneutically basic? What difference, if any, does our answer to this question make for our understanding of the Old Testament’s witness to Christ? We will then turn to a discussion of premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to the unity of Scripture, with special emphasis on the understanding of authorial intention, historical context, and Scripture’s theological sense at work in these approaches. The middle and final sections of the course will discuss the study of biblical words and texts, the place of literary genre, the NT use of the OT, as well as its relation to the hermeneutics of Second Temple Judaism. Case studies of biblical texts drawn from both the Old and New Testament will provide opportunities to illuminate these issues in the concrete context of exegesis and interpretation.
The Rev. Dr. Don Collett bio.
Kaiser, Walter, and Moises Silva. Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics: The Search for Meaning. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-3102-7951-8. Price: $29.99.
Dauphinais, Michael, and Matthew Levering. Holy People, Holy Land. Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN: 978-1-5874-3123-4. Price: $22.99.
Collett, Don. Figural Reading and the Old Testament: Theology and Practice. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5409-6076-4. Price: $24.99.
O’Keefe, John J., and Rusty Reno. Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-8018-8087-4. Price: $21.95.
Yarkin, William. History of Biblical Interpretation: A Reader. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-8010-3980-5. Price: $39.99.
If this is your first credit class at Trinity, or you are not taking the course as part of a degree, please complete the non-matriculated application. A bachelor’s degree is required to obtain credit.
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