This episode is the first of many on the new series: Searching the Scriptures. Searching the Scriptures is a series where I will be going through content that I taught to some students at my church on the development of the Bible and hermeneutics (how we read the Bible). While the class is about the Bible as a whole, it is more focused on the Hebrew Bible (/Old Testament/TaNaKh); in this series, we will go through the following:
This episode not only opens up the series but conquers the first and most important issue: harmful hermeneutics. Before I got started on what the Bible actually is, I wanted to explain what the Bible wasn't - So that's what this episode is all about. In this podcast, I'll discuss some of the most common models that people read the Bible with (many times they don't even do so consciously) and the problems (and good intuitions) with all of them. You can find the packet that goes along with this week's episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RXJLYEHG3mzk2ekjwrx679w4MLP5RHBE2QuEcV4KVAw/edit?usp=sharing.
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