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Reading the Bible doesn’t need to be a difficult journey through strange and bewildering territory. How to Read the Bible Book by Book walks you through the Scriptures like an experienced tour guide, helping you understand each of its sixty-six books.
For each book of the Bible, the authors start with a quick snapshot, then expand the view to help you better understand its message and how it fits into the grand narrative of the Bible. Written by two top evangelical scholars, this survey is designed to get you actually reading the Bible knowledgeably and understanding it accurately.
In an engaging, conversational style, Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart take you through every book of the Bible using their unique approach:
Orienting Data—Concise info bytes that form a thumbnail of the book.Overview—A brief panorama that introduces key concepts and themes and important landmarks in the bookSpecific Advice for Reading—Pointers for accurately understanding the details and message of the book in context with the circumstances surrounding its writing.A Walk Through—The actual section-by-section tour that helps you see both the larger landscape of the book and how its various parts work together to form the whole.
How to Read the Bible Book by Book can be used as a companion to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. It also stands on its own as a reliable guide to reading and understanding the Bible for yourself.
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What’s Unique About This Guided Tour of the Bible?
Its aim isn’t just to hand you orientating data on the Bible, but to help you become a better and more engaged reader of Scripture by learning how each book of the Bible fits into God’s ultimate narrative. The authors, Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, are two experienced seminary professors who strongly believe in understanding, obeying, and applying biblical text as carefully as possible.Attention is given to both exegesis and hermeneutics to help you understand the original textual meaning and also what it means for us today. You will be given practical guidelines for learning to ask the right questions.
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About the Book
A companion to How to Read the Bible Book by Book. Helps you accurately understand the different parts of the Bible — their meaning for ancient audiences and their implications for you today. Introduces students to the basic skills of intelligent reading, applied to theological works. With so many Bible translations available today, how can you find those that will be most useful to you? Brings clarity and insight to the debate over Bible translations and translation theories. Presents Christ as the central focus of each biblical book and the primary way the Bible relates to contemporary circumstances. Covering the History, Law, Prophets, Psalms, and Wisdom Literature, interspersed with practical checklists, exercises, and sermons, this book provides an essential guide on how to preach the Old Testament responsibly.
Authors
Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart Karin Spiecker Stetina Gordon D. Fee and Mark L. Strauss Michael Williams Christopher J. H. Wright
ASIN : B000S1LXM0
Publisher : Zondervan Academic (July 13, 2009)
Publication date : July 13, 2009
Language : English
File size : 2515 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 450 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 0310211182
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Customers find the book very helpful for learning the context behind the Scriptures. They say it adds depth and background to what they are reading. Readers also appreciate the clear, concise, and up-to-date biblical material. They say the authors do a good job of giving a synopsis of each book, which gives them a focus.
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