After each course, our students have filled out surveys commenting on aspects of the curriculum and instruction that were helpful, or not. Consistently over the past several Bible Survey courses, our students noted that they found the Kerygma series to be too superficial. As a result, our instructors were supplementing the Kerygma materials to such an extent that they were not really being used by the end of the third year. Therefore, beginning this year, we will no longer use the Kerygma curriculum. In order to simplify book purchasing, we are requiring the following four books for the entire three year program:
INSIDE THE BIBLE - An Introduction to Each Book of the Bible, by Kenneth Baker, Ignatius Press, 1998
OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY, by Paul House, InterVarsity Press (IVP), 1998
THE WRITINGS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT - An Interpretation, by Luke Timothy Johnson, Fortress Press, 1999 [Note: the most recent edition comes with a searchable CD Rom]
TYNDALE BIBLE DICTIONARY, Edited by Walter Ewell & Philip Comfort, Tyndale House Publishers, 2001
Note: Instructors may also require some additional reading in the way of supplemental articles.
A syllabus will be offered for each course. However, the readings will correspond to the following list of courses:
OT-I Introduction to OT and the Pentateuch
OT-II Historical Books
OT-III Wisdom Literature and Poetry
OT-IV Major Prophets
OT-V Minor Prophets and Deuterocanonical Writings
NT-I Introduction to NT and the Gospels
NT-II Acts of the Apostles
NT-III Pauline Epistles
NT-IV Pastoral Epistles and Hebrews
NT-V Catholic Epistles and Revelation
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