As Christians, we believe that the Bible is the sole
truth in our faith and daily life. The more we know our Bible as the Word of
God, the more we know our God and then, serve Him. Then, how can we interpret
Bible properly?
Find the answer in
Book
INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS:
The Search for Meaning
by:
Prof. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Ph.D. and
Prof. Moises Silva, Ph.D.
Publisher: Zondervan, Grand Rapids, U.S.A.,
2007
In this book, Dr. Kaiser and Dr. Silva explains all
about Biblical hermeneutics in four parts. In the first part, they explain the
significance of hermeneutics, meaning, language, and Biblical theology. In the
next part, they explain how to understand each genre in the Bible: narrative,
poetry and wisdom, gospels, epistles, and prophecy. Two parts lead us into the
third part that is the relationship between the meaning of the text and the
application in our daily life. In this part, Dr. Kaiser explains the the use of
the Bible in: devotional, cultural, and theological things. In the last part,
they explain about history of biblical interpretation since Old Testament era
until modern era and then challenges for Christians to interpret the Bible
properly with grammatico-historical exegesis which emphasis on grammar of texts
and historical context.
Biography of the author:
Prof. Walter Christian Kaiser, Jr., A.B.,
B.D., M.A., Ph.D. who is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of
Old Testament and Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton,
Michigan, U.S.A. was born into a German Baptist (now North American Baptist)
home on April 11, 1933, in Folcroft, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of the six
children of Walter Christian Kaiser Sr., a farmer and a godly Christian leader
in the local church, and Estelle Jaworsky Kaiser. Kaiser received his Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) from Wheaton
College and Bachelor of
Divinity (B.D.) from Wheaton Graduate School. He has earned both a Master of Arts (M.A.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in
Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University. Prior to serving at
Gordon-Conwell, Dr. Kaiser taught Bible and archaeology at Wheaton College and
he was academic dean and Professor of Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
where he taught for more than twenty years. He wrote several books, such as:
* Toward an Old Testament Theology
(1978)
* Toward an Exegetical Theology (1981)
* A Biblical
Approach to Personal Suffering (1982)
* Toward Old Testament Ethics (1983)
* Malachi: God's Unchanging Love (1984)
* The Uses of the
Old Testament in the New (1985)
* Toward a
Rediscovery of the Old Testament (1987)
* Hard Sayings of
the Old Testament (1988)
* Back toward the
Future: Hints for Interpreting Biblical Prophecy(1989)
* Commentary on "Exodus" in The
Expositor's Bible Commentary (1990)
* More Hard
Sayings of the Old Testament (1992)
* Communicator's
Commentary: Micah, Malachi (1992)
* Commentary on
"Leviticus" in The New Interpreter's Bible (1994)
* Messiah in the
Old Testament (1995)
* A History of
Israel: From the Bronze Age Through the Jewish Wars (1998)
* The Christian
and the Old Testament (1998)
* The Old
Testament Documents: Are They Reliable & Relevant? (2001)
* Preaching
and Teaching from the Old Testament (2003)
Prof. Moisés Silva, B.A., B.D., Th.M., Ph.D. who was born in Havana, Cuba on September 4, 1945
is the revising editor of the Zondervan
Encyclopedia of the Bible and the author of six books, including Biblical
Words and Their Meaning (1983, 2nd ed. 1994), a commentary on Phillipians, Invitation
to the Septuagint
(with Karen Jobes); God, Language, and Scripture;
Has the Church Misread the Bible?,
and Interpreting Galatians. He
has taught biblical studies at Westmont
College (1972–1981), Westminster Theological Seminary
(1981–1996), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
(1996–2000), where he was the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor
of New Testament until his retirement. A past president of the Evangelical Theological Society
(1997), Silva for many years had been an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He served as
a translator of the New American Standard Bible, the New Living Translation (Ephesians - Philemon),
the English Standard Version, and the Nueva Versión Internacional,
and as a New Testament consultant for Eugene
Peterson's The Message. Silva receives his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Bob Jones University in 1966; Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) and Master of Theology (Th.M.) from Westminster Theological Seminary
in 1969 and 1971; and Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1972. At
Manchester he studied under F. F. Bruce and James Barr.
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