BIB520 The Story of the Bible
This collection of books that were written over thousands of years, by many authors, in a variety of places and cultures, in the midst of widely ranging historical contexts has been compiled and handed down generation after generation, claiming to be God’s revelation of who He is, who we are, what has been, and what is to come. This course is designed to help students see, in the many pieces, genres, times and places, the big story that it presents and to understand the relationship of the parts to the whole. From that understanding, the goal is to ignite in students a passion for exploring the life-giving truth in the story it tells.
Credits: 3
Student learning outcomes
- Articulate the contextual message of the whole of Scripture and the relation of each part to the whole.
- Articulate the storyline of the Bible as it is developed from Genesis to Revelation.
- Identify the message of each of the books, and the role that each plays in the developing of the grand narrative.
- Interpret each of the books of the Bible in light of its historical context and of the larger context of Scripture.
- Apply solid interpretive skills in identifying the synthesis of the whole from the messages of each part.
- Value the whole of Scripture as God’s communication to mankind and absolutely relevant to their life challenges and choices.
- Pursue a lifelong quest to know the God who is speaking through the whole of the Scriptures.