An examination of what the text actually says and means. the basis for all reading and interpreting the Bible. It looks at how the books got there in the first place, how the text was meant to be understood in its own time and culture, and what external evidence can be found to shed light upon them and help explain them. As such, this topic is broken down into three sub topics - Canonics, Hermeneutics, and Biblical Archaeology.
Canonics - how the Bible was put together and developed. Learn the history of our Bibles, how they took shape, the story behind the Bible why does it contain the books it does? Both the historical story of how it was put together and the theological story of why. Helps to answer questions about the Bible as a whole - what it is - and to give confidence to the reader that their Bibles are reliable and can be trusted.