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Towards an Understanding of the Bible

 Contents

      Introduction

    Leaders' Guide

    1.    The Character of Biblical Literature

    2.    The Canon of Scripture

    3.    The Nature of the Text

            A.  The Hebrew Language 

            B.  The Greek language

    4.    Problems with and praises for the Bible

    5.    "We don't always agree"

    6.    Biblical Interpretations

            A.   The Divine Oracle

            B.    Prophesy - Allegory - Type

            C.    Historical Criticism

            D.    Literary Criticism

            E.    Bultmann - Demthologisation

            F.    "Is the author dead?"

    7.    Growing Theological Understandings

    8.    The Names of God

    9.    How important is the Old Testament?

    10.  Jesus - Who was he?

    11.  The Cross - What was it?

    12.  The Authority of the Bible