Description
In this course, the lecturer exposits the books of Judges and Ruth with the aim of showing their meaning to Israel and their relevance to the Church today. This course aims to analyse the literary technique of the narrator to let the message be inscribed on the hearts of students. Lectures include:
1: Intrduction and Sacred Hermeneutics; Narrative Theology2: Rhetorical Devices; Introduction to the Book of Judges3: The House of Joseph; Cycle of the Warlords and Deborah4: Gideon; Jeptha5: Ruth
Bruce K. Waltke is Professor Emeritus in Old Testament Studies at Regent College. He is the author of Creation and Chaos, Finding the Will of God, and co-author of An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (with M. O'Conner). He also served on the translation committee of the NIV Bible.
