Download e-book for iPad: A Layperson’s Guide to Biblical Interpretation: A Means to by Luke Brad Bobo,Clarence Dewitt Agan III

analyzing an historic booklet just like the Bible could be an intimidating job. optimistically, this booklet will demystify or make easier the duty of Biblical interpretation for the layperson (or seminarian) by way of a convenient and remarkable acronym 'SCAR'--where S ability sitting with the textual content to hear the Biblical author's phrases time and again; the place C ability the literary and cultural-historical contexts; the place a method research; and eventually, the place R capacity God's Redemptive therapy. Readers are handled to a few available idea at the back of Biblical interpretation partially 1 and examples partly 2, the place SCAR is utilized on to outdated testomony and New testomony texts.

God has printed himself at the pages of Scripture. He has published himself simply because he desires to be jealously and desperately recognized; so, my prayer for you is this small ebook besides the real Biblical Interpreter, the Holy Spirit, will drastically and patiently escort you during this pastime so you fall extra in love with our appealing and gracious God who is familiar with and loves you in detail. and should your turning out to be and maturing love for him present itself on your unwavering obedience to him.

"With this article, Dr. Bobo has performed a superb carrier to people who starvation, thirst or simply ask yourself what the Bible is all approximately. Luke's superb burden to aid and deal with others crystallizes during this paintings of educational compassion. i'm so thankful for Luke's first-class writing and Christ-like example."
--Mike Higgins, Dean of scholars, Covenant Theological Seminary; Senior Pastor, South urban Church

"Dr. Luke Bobo's A Layperson's advisor to Biblical Interpretation is a profound, principled, sensible, and, at many issues, own primer that might motivate exegetes within the pulpit and the pew to discover the precious fact of the Bible extra successfully. . . . this useful advisor will assuage the fears, sharpen the point of interest, and give a boost to the religion of starting or complex scholars of the Bible who wish to draw nearer in head, middle, and hand to the only the Bible announces as either writer and Redeemer."
--T. D. Stubblefield, Senior Pastor-Teacher, First Baptist Church, Chesterfield, Missouri

Luke Bobo serves because the Director of source and Curriculum improvement for Made to Flourish (see madetoflourish.org). He previously labored because the Curriculum Director and Resident Theologian for Biblical company education (Chesterfield, MO) and as an affiliate Professor and division Chair for Lindenwood collage (St. Charles, MO) within the school's Christian Ministry stories software. ahead of Lindenwood, Luke served as Assistant Dean for either the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute and formative years In Ministry Institute at Covenant Theological Seminary. in the course of June 2007, he traveled to Goiania, Goias in Brazil to evangelise and to talk at the significance of contextualizing the gospel. Dr. Bobo holds a PhD in Judaic Studies/Rabbinic Andragogy from the college of Missouri-St. Louis. He holds a grasp of Divinity from Covenant Theological Seminary (St. Louis, MO); a MS in electric and machine Engineering from the collage of Missouri-Columbia; and a BS in electric Engineering from the college of Kansas, Lawrence. Dr. Bobo labored as an electric Engineer for fifteen years sooner than his paintings with the Institutes at Covenant. he's the writer of Living Salty and Light-filled Lives within the place of work