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.
Hermeneutics - the art of interpretation, what does the text actually say, and what did it mean to the original readers? Asks the questions - Why do we need to interpret? What is the role of the interpreter? How should we read the Bible? What questions should we ask? Learn how to rightly handle Scripture, how to read and interpret it, to distinguish between the cultural and the timeless.