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NT 511 The Gospel of Mark

William J. Patrick

A. Revised Standard Version. Any edition that gives an uncluttered text will do. NRSV can also be used. Also, the GNT can be used according to the level of one’s ability. B. Traina, Robert A. Methodical Bible Study. Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Francis Asbury Press, 1985. C. Bauer, David R. (ed.). Biblical Resources for Ministry. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1995.
NT 530 The Gospel of Mark

William J. Patrick

Course Texts: A. Revised Standard Version. Any edition that gives an uncluttered text will do. NRSV can also be used. Also, the GNT can be used according to the level of one’s ability. B. Traina, Robert A. Methodical Bible Study. Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Francis Asbury Press, 1985. C. Bauer, David R. (ed.). Biblical Resources for Ministry. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1995.
NT 632 Exegesis of Philippians

William J. Patrick

Daniel B. Wallace. Basics of ew Testament Syntax: An Intermediate Greek Grammar. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981. Helmut Thielicke. A Little Exercise for Young Theologians. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
NT 662 Exegesis of Philippians

William J. Patrick

Required Texts David Alan Black. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998 Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981.
CS 601 Christian Ethics

Christine Pohl

Dayton, Donald W., Discovering an Evangelical Heritage (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1988). Miles, Rebekah L. The Pastor as Moral Guide (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999).
CS 650 Tutorial in Christian Ethics

Christine Pohl

Students will be able: To provide a biblical basis for the moral life. To describe various historical and contemporary Christian interpretations of social and personal moral issues. To use the basic vocabulary of ethical analysis. To use basic tools of social analysis. To explain the Wesleyan emphasis on the various dimensions of holiness, specifically the expectation for personal integrity, moral concern, and social responsibility. To recognize and explain at a basic level the needs, contexts, and insights of various cultural groups and marginalized communities in society and in the church (these may include, but are not limited to, particularity arising from ethnic, gender, class, and geographic locations). To explain how responses to moral problems and moral integrity shape congregational life.
CS 652 Ethics of Hospitality and Contemporary Challenges

Christine Pohl

Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. NY: HarperCollins, 1979, 1994. Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999 Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Reading Packet Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday. Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994.
CS 652 Ethics of Hospitality and Contemporary Challenges

Christine Pohl

Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. NY: HarperCollins, 1979, 1994. Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999 Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Reading Packet Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday. Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994.
CS 700 Servant as Liberator

Christine Pohl

Dayton, Donald W., Discovering an Evangelical Heritage (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1988). Marquardt, Manfred, John Wesley’s Social Ethics [trans. Steely & Gunter] (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1992). Packet (readings are not in order in packet)
CS 740 Ethics of Hospitality and Contemporary Challenges

Christine Pohl

Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. NY: HarperCollins, 1979, 1994. Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999 Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Reading Packet Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994. Nouwen, Henri, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday.
PR 610 The Servant as Proclaimer

W. Thomas Pope

Required Texts: • Fred B. Craddock. Preaching • Donald E. Demaray. Introduction to Homiletics (Revised) • Calvin Miller. Spirit, Word, and Story
PR 610 The Servant as Proclaimer

W. Thomas Pope

Required Texts: • Fred B. Craddock. Preaching • Donald E. Demaray. Introduction to Homiletics (Revised) • Michael Duduit, editor. Communicate with Power
PR 610 The Servant as Proclaimer

W. Thomas Pope

Required Texts: • Fred B. Craddock. Preaching • Donald E. Demaray. Introduction to Homiletics (Revised) • Michael Duduit, editor. Communicate with Power
PR 610 Servant as Proclaimer

David L. Rambo

Craddock, Fred. PREACHING. Nashville: Abingdon, 1985. Willhite, Keith and Gibson, Scott, Ed. THE BIG IDEA OF BIBLICAL PREACHING. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998. Note: You will be asked at the December interview if you have read these books. Chapell, Bryan. CHRIST-CENTERED PREACHING. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books Inc., 1994. Robinson, Haddon. BIBLICAL PREACHING. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1980. Sine, Tom. MUSTARD SEED s. McWORLD. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998. Troeger, Thomas H. IMAGINING A SERMON. Nashville: Abingdon, 1990.
PR 610 Servant as Proclaimer

David L. Rambo

Craddock, Fred. PREACHING. Nashville: Abingdon, 1985. Willhite, Keith and Gibson, Scott, Ed. THE BIG IDEA OF BIBLICAL PREACHING. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998.
OT 520 Foundations for Old Testament Study

Sandra Richter

LaSor, Hubbard & Bush, Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form and Background of the OT, 2nd edition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996). James B. Pritchard, ed. The HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). Roland de Vaux, Ancient Israel Its Life and Institutions in the Biblical Resource Series (Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans/Livonia: Dove Book Sellers, 1997). WJ Dumbrell, Covenant and Creation: A Theology of OT Covenants (Paternoster Press, 2000 [1984]).
OT 520 Foundations for Old Testament Study

Sandra Richter

LaSor, Hubbard & Bush, Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form and Background of the OT, 2nd edition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996). James B. Pritchard, ed. The HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). Roland de Vaux, Ancient Israel Its Life and Institutions in the Biblical Resource Series (Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans/Livonia: Dove Book Sellers, 1997). WJ Dumbrell, Covenant and Creation: A Theology of OT Covenants (Paternoster Press, 2000 [1984]).
OT 651 Hebrew Readings

Sandra Richter

BHS Rudolph, W. and H.P. Ruger, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 2nd edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1984. BDB Brown, Francis. The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1979. Lambdin/Seow EITHER Seow, C.L., A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995 OR Lambdin, Thomas O., Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971. Landes, George M. A Student’s Vocabulary of Biblical Hebrew. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to BHS. Berkeley, CA: BIBAL Press, 1987. Wurthwein, Ernst. The Text of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979.
OT 704 Akkadian

Sandra Richter

John Huehnergard. A Grammar of Akkadian. HSM 45. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
OT 711 Archaeological Discoveries in Palestine

Sandra Richter

Currid, John D. Doing Archaeology in the Land of the Bible: A Basic Guide. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2000. Mazar, Amihai. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 BCE. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday, 1990. The Ancient $ear East, vol. 1, ed. James B. Pritchard. Princeton University Press, 1958. The HarpersCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible, ed. James B. Pritchard. HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.
OT 501 Concise Hebrew

Brian D. Russell

Required Texts Spring: Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford, 1907; reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1979. Chisholm, Robert. From Exegesis to Exposition. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998. Seow, C. L. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Rev. Ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Bible Works 4.0 (BW) Fall: Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. Holladay, William L. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1971. Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to BHS. Berkley, CA: BIBAL, 1987. Seow, C. L. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995.
OT 502 Comprehensive Hebrew II

Brian D. Russell

Required Texts Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford, 1907; reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1979. Mitchel, Larry A. A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984. Chisholm, Robert. From Exegesis to Exposition. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998. Seow, C. L. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Rev. Ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Bible Works 4.0
OT 520 Foundations for Old Testament Study

Brian D. Russell

Required Texts Spring: F.F. Bruce, Israel and the Nations: The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple, Revised by David F. Payne (Downers Grove: IVP, 1997). Raymond B. Dillard and Tremper Longman III, An Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994). W. W. Klein, C. L. Blomberg, and R. L. Hubbard, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (Waco: Word, 1993). Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin, Social World of Ancient Israel: 150-587 BCE (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993). June: William S. Lasor, et al. Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996. Richard E. Friedman. Who Wrote the Bible? 2nd ed. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1997. H. Shanks, ed. Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Rev. ed. Biblical Archaeology Society and Prentice Hall, 1999. James B. Pritchard, ed. The HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997).
OT 610 Pentateuch

Brian D. Russell

Required Texts 1. RSV, NRSV, NIV, or some other non-paraphrased version of the Bible. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson or Methodical Bible Study. Zondervan, 1982. Robert Traina. 3. Achtemeier, Elizabeth. Preaching from the Old Testament. Louisville: WJK, 1989. 4. Walter Brueggemann. Genesis. Interpretation. Westminster John Knox, 1982. 5. John I. Durham. Exodus. WBC. Word, 1987. 6. Patrick D. Miller. Deuteronomy. Interpretation. Westminster John Knox, 1990.
OT 620 Pentateuch

Brian D. Russell

Required Texts 1. RSV, NRSV, NIV, or some other non-paraphrased version of the Bible. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson or Methodical Bible Study. Zondervan, 1982. Robert Traina. 3. Biblical Resources for Ministry, edited by David R. Bauer. Second edition. Evangel Press, 1995. 4. Walter Brueggemann. Genesis. Interpretation. Westminster John Knox, 1982. 5. John I. Durham. Exodus. WBC. Word, 1987. 6. Patrick D. Miller. Deuteronomy. Interpretation. Westminster John Knox, 1990.