Grasping God's Word (4th Edition)

A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible

Grasping God's Word (4th Edition)
J Scott Duvall, J Daniel Hays, Mark L Strauss and Kevin J Vanhoozer
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Hardback
h241 x 193mm - 592pg
13 Oct 2020 US
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9780310109174
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A Proven Approach to Help You Interpret and Understand the BibleGrasping God' s Word has proven itself in classrooms across the country as an invaluable help to students who want to learn how to read, interpret, and apply the Bible for themselves. This book will equip you with a five-step Interpretive Journey that will help you make sense of any passage in the Bible. It will also guide you through all the different genres found in the Bible to help you learn the specifics of how to best approach each one. Filling the gap between approaches that are too simple and others that are too technical, this book starts by equipping readers with general principles of interpretation, then moves on to apply those principles to specific genres and contexts. Features include:Proven in classrooms across the countryHands-on exercises to guide students through the interpretation processEmphasis on real-life applicationSupplemented by a website for professors providing extensive teaching materialsAccompanying workbook, video lectures, laminated study guide (sold separately)This fourth edition includes revised chapters on word studies and Bible translations, updated illustrations, cultural references, bibliography, and assignments. This book is the ideal resource for anyone looking for a step-by-step guide that will teach them how to accurately and faithfully interpret the Bible.
J. Scott Duvall (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of New Testament at Ouachita Baptist University. He is the coauthor with George H. Guthrie of Biblical Greek Exegesis: A Graded Approach to Learning Intermediate and Advanced Greek and with Terry G. Carter and J. Daniel Hays of the textbook Preaching God' s Word: A Hands on Approach to Preparing, Developing and Delivering the Sermon. J. Daniel Hays (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is dean of the Pruet School of Christian Studies and professor of Old Testament at Ouachita Baptist University. He is the author of From Every People and Nation, and he has coauthored Grasping God' s Word; Preaching God' s Word; Journey into God' s Word; The Story of Israel: A Biblical Theology; Iraq: Babylon of the End Times? ; Apocalypse; and The Dictionary of Biblical Prophecy. He teaches adult Sunday school at his local church in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and preaches frequently throughout the nation. Mark Strauss (PhD, Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary in San Diego. He has written The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts, Distorting Scripture? , The Challenge of Bible Translation and Gender Accuracy, and Luke in the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Background Commentary series. Forthcoming books include The Gospels and Jesus, Mark in the revised Expositor' s Bible Commentary series, and Mark in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary series.
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ISBN-13: 9780310109174
Published: 13 Oct 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Zondervan
Publisher: Zondervan
Format: Hardback
Height: 241mm
Width: 193mm
Spine: 39mm
Weight: 1146g
Pages: 592

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