Week One: Text and Tools

My notes

Slides

Bernard Ramm's piece "But It Isn't Bible Study"

Bible Study Resources

Bible Gateway (Online source of texts)


Week Two: The Big Picture

Follow-up from Week One

Differences between NASB and NASB Updated

Two new Bible translations that seek to preserve the translational accuracy of the NASB but to also approach the readability of the NIV:

NETBible

English Standard Version

Resources for study of the Septuagint

Clean NASB text of Jonah

WeekTwo Slides


Week Three: Getting Down To Details

Follow-up from Week Two

For Fun: "HBRW" by Jessica Shaver

The Date of "Mark"

The Authorship of "Mark"

Packet of several background studies done on Mark

Background on Mark the way a paid professional does it

My Bookchart of Jonah

Grant Osborne's Bookchart of Jonah

Week Three Slides

Structural Diagrams: Overview

Sentence Diagram Example

Block Diagram Example

Clauses

Block Method

Block Diagram Assignment

Structural Outline Handout

Word Studies: Overview

Concentric Word Contexts

Word Study Handout


Week Four: Narrative

Follow-up from Week Three

Structural Outline of Ephesians 1:5-7

Structural Outline of Ephesians 1:8b-10

Week Four

What "narrative" is

Some terminology

Other literary forms

A depiction of the "real world"

How narrative creates a "similicrum" of the "real world"

Elements of Meaning

Real/implied author/reader

"Poetics"

"Criticism"

Handout on Narrative (contains some formatting errors)

Mark Alan Powell: "Using Narrative Criticism in Exegesis"