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Summary: Digging Deeper?
Review: This book is a great tool for anyone who would like to know more about the bible, and how to make some sense of it. This should be required reading for anyone who teaches the bible at any level, Sunday School Teachers to Senior Pastors. Fee and Stuart break down the study of the biblical texts into easy to understand, yet challenging language. This book is used in both collegiate and graduate level studies, and it is great that it is!You really can't go wrong with this solid text. Joseph Dworak
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Summary: Digging Deeper?
Review: This book is a great tool for anyone who would like to know more about the bible, and how to make some sense of it. This should be required reading for anyone who teaches the bible at any level, Sunday School Teachers to Senior Pastors. Fee and Stuart break down the study of the biblical texts into easy to understand, yet challenging language. This book is used in both collegiate and graduate level studies, and it is great that it is! You really can't go wrong with this solid text. Joseph Dworak
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Summary: Good book, but is it really needed?
Review: This book is not really that bad of a book. Many of its suggested methods are generally good ideas to keep in mind when reading the Bible. However, I have to ask... is such a book like this really needed? This book is really just a technical "How to read..." type book. I'd say if most people are actually able to read this book (as it can be a bit academic sometimes), then they are probably perfectly capable of reading the Scriptures and understanding them. Overall though, not a bad book, which contains a few suggestions that will probably profit just about anybody in their own studies. Like one reviewer said though, I can't believe this book is required reading at a Bible college (which is where I had to read it.)
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Summary: Good book, but is it really needed?
Review: This book is not really that bad of a book. Many of its suggested methods are generally good ideas to keep in mind when reading the Bible. However, I have to ask... is such a book like this really needed? This book is really just a technical "How to read..." type book. I'd say if most people are actually able to read this book (as it can be a bit academic sometimes), then they are probably perfectly capable of reading the Scriptures and understanding them. Overall though, not a bad book, which contains a few suggestions that will probably profit just about anybody in their own studies. Like one reviewer said though, I can't believe this book is required reading at a Bible college (which is where I had to read it.)
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Summary: The title is correct--Great Book
Review: This book is of untold value for interpreting scripture. Unfortunately, the reviewer who gives four stars for typos and says the title is misspelled, misses the point. "Its" is used as an adjective (possessive) not a contraction (It's) and is a play on words. Dr. Fee, one of my former teachers, has the rare gift and ability to take difficult concepts and express them in language that can be understood, and in this case, put into practice. His commentary on I Corinthians is without peer. I strongly recommend everything he has written.
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Summary: Worthy Read
Review: This book is practical and has a lot of helpful insights. Although even both authors don't see eye to eye on everything this book still essentially is a must read for hermaneutics.
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Summary: "Shoud be taught in Sunday School!"
Review: This book presents the most practical and realistic way a student should pursue Bible Study.If more students of the Bible would latch on to these basic guidelines their lives would be richer for it. These scholors have done us a favor. They have moved the issue from academia to the front lines where it is needed. A must for every Bible student
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Summary: Great for New believers and those who are going deeper.
Review: This book teaches how to dig the nuggets contained in the word of God. It is simple yet brilliant in its approach to modern Bible study and understanding. Why be stuck with believing because you were told versus believing because you know based upon your own study of God's word. This books is perfect for the true student of the Bible. It will help you understand what the Bible really says and unlock the differences we face with being seperated by time and culture when facing what the Bible was really trying to communicate to us as believers.
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Summary: practical and insightful
Review: this book was recommended to me by several MDIV graduates as a basic primer on Biblical Interpretation. I found it very accessible, and found the principles easy to remember and teach to others (those in my small group, friends, etc.) I especially like how Fee & Stuart address particular interpretation issues specific to the Epistles, Old Testament, Prophecy, Wisdom books, and Gospels.
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Summary: We commend this book to you
Review: This is a book on interpreting the Bible and applying it to your life. My seven-member Bible study group (from an Evangelical Free church) did a 13-week study/discussion of this book. Thirteen weeks may sound like a long time, but it worked well for us for two reasons: First, the book is not light reading. You need time to read, struggle, re-read, and come to grips with each chapter. Second, the authors often ask the reader to read large portions of scripture as part of studying a particular chapter in their book. In their chapter on the epistles, for example, the authors ask the reader to read through all of I Corinthians in one sitting, then study it *again* using techniques that they teach in the book. We believe that this book is not a "basic primer"--it is not a book for beginning students of the Bible. For new Christians, let me suggest a book recommended by the authors themselves: "Knowing Scripture," by R. C. Sproul. OUR FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT THE BOOK: 1) The book is written by two seminary professors who tell us, in the book's preface, that they are "believers, who think we should obey the biblical texts, not merely read or study them." 2) The emphasis of the book is on helping readers struggle with the questions of applying the Bible to their own lives. 3) The book eases the reader into the subject matter by giving some general principles of interpretation and by discussing the relative strengths of different Bible translations. 4) The book then divides the Bible into different types of literature (e.g., parables, law, epistles, prophets, and so forth); this approach helps to clarify the "rules of the road" in interpretation. As one example, the authors lay down some rules for understanding proverbial wisdom, and from these rules, we understand that Proverbs are not legal guarantees from God. OUR NOT-SO-FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT THE BOOK: 1) Even in the most recently printed version, there are some curious typographical errors. 2) A couple of members of our Bible study felt the book was "difficult reading" in some places. 3) If you want exposure to *several* viewpoints about how Old Testament Law does or does not apply (or applies in part) to New Testament Christians, you'll need to look elsewhere. FINAL THOUGHT: If you are looking for more than a basic primer on reading and applying the Bible to your life, we commend this book to you. This book changed the way we study scripture--for the better. All members of my Bible study group rated the book at 4.5 stars or higher.
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