Adult Bible
Studies with a Difference
Listening to Scripture: Strategies for Interpreting the Bible
Resource Book:
Richard L. Rohrbaugh
Leader's Guide: John Mehl
Resource Book:
$18.00
Leader’s Guide CD-ROM/DVD:
$18.00
Listening
to Scripture introduces six skills or strategies that
will enable learners to uncover enough about the text that
they can begin to understand the meaning it might have had
for its first readers and hearers.
Learning what the
text meant is the study’s first objective.
From there,
participants explore what the text means - the message it
has for us as Christians today.
8 sessions:
Introduction
Scripture in the Life of the Community of
Faith
Six Strategies for Listening to Scripture:
Exploring the
Historical Setting
Discovering the Literary Context and
Audience
Identifying Oral and Literary Forms
Analyzing the
Structure
Investigating Words and Phrases
Putting it All
Together
