Description
his course provides students with skills to interpret the Scriptures through a balanced approach, integrating a historical, patristic, liturgical, and iconographical contexts. Students will study the Gospel of Matthew to better understand its historical setting, and will exegete select passages from it. The aim of the course is to equip each student with the practical skills to interpret the Holy Scriptures for teaching, preaching, and personal spiritual formation. The Method of Instruction will include lectures and discussion on each section of Matthew. In parallel, students will dive deeply into the exegesis select passages. Students will have regular opportunities to practice specific skills. This class satisfies the MDiv requirement for NT exegesis.