Reading Scripture Like a Detective

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This course is composed of ten lessons. Each lesson contains interactive questions throughout and ends with an assignment. A single lesson will take the average student three to four hours to complete. Students are invited to progress at their own pace, but we encourage you to make a plan for steady progress and to stick to that plan. Your coach will inquire as to your intended pace shortly after you begin and help keep you accountable to stay on schedule.

Path courses all end with an assessment to determine your grasp of the skills learned and material covered. Successfully passing an assessment requires a high degree of understanding and is meant to serve as a motivation to take your study seriously as well as a catalyst to improve the standard of Bible study in the Biblearc community.

Students who successfully complete the course and pass the assessment will earn the Biblearc’s Interpretation Certificate (see sample). They will also earn exciting rewards.

If you do not pass an assessment, you may retry after one week’s time.

When the course quotes from Scripture, it is quoting from the ESV unless otherwise noted. For more information on the ESV, visit esv.org. 

This course is currently available in English only.

Interested in helping us develop this courses in other languages? Let us know.

Books and courses on interpreting the Bible abound in our day. What makes this course unique?

Answer: Our instructor is the Scripture itself.

In this course, you will learn how to read the Bible as the Bible itself demands to be read. In other words, this course will teach you to derive your hermeneutic of the Bible from the Bible, discovering the interpretive principles that the Bible itself sets forth—all that we might know God’s glory in Christ more as we allow the Word of God to be both our teacher and our textbook.

Seeking a Biblical Hermeneutic

Interpretation

Lesson 5: Introduction to Genre

Lesson 7: Christ as the Key

The Bible demands that we use Scripture according to its example.

Lesson 8: The Right Use of Scripture

Lesson 9: The Heart of Interpretation

Lesson 10: Interpretive Tools

Lesson 1: Laying the Foundation

Lesson 2: Interpretation Is Moral

Lesson 3: Learning Our Hermeneutic from the Bible

Lesson 4: Understanding the Context

Lesson 6: Using The Four Branches of Theology

Assessment

Greek Reading Self-Assessment

Coming soon...

Hebrew Reading Self-Assessment

How to share your work with a Biblearc group

Arcing Path Course in [Language]

Arcing: curso em português

Biblearc Path Course Translation

Cours de cheminement en français sur le Arcing

Cours de cheminement en français sur le Bracketing

“Arcing in Minneapolis”—Our First-Ever Workshop!

ESV Cross-Reference System

Sandbox Demo

New Testament Bracketing

Matthew 8:23–27

Landing Page

Biblearc Partners

The Apostles’ Creed

The Nicene Creed

Greek Paradigm Songs

Markup: The 7 Lenses of Bible Study

Frequently Asked Questions

Learning Resources Video Library

Contact us

Welcome!

Facebook Live

Self-Paced Tracks

Rewards

Revelation

Assignment

Following the Bible's Example?

What Is the Bible?

Your Word Gives Light

Course Survey

Rooted in God

Beware of Your Interpretive Bent

Why Interpretation Matters

The Authors of Scripture

Review

The Bible's Own Instruction

Example 2

Example 1

Example 3

OT Genres: Proverbs

Multiple Choice

Short Answer

Do Word Studies

What Is Genre?

OT Genres: Law

OT Genres: Psalms

NT Genres: Gospel

Biblical Theology

What the Bible Demands

Christ and the Church

Christ as the Key

OT Wisdom Literature

OT Promises and Prophecy

The Gospels

Course Trail Map

True Understanding

The Bible: To Us or For Us?

People of the Book

Overview of Biblical History

Measuring the Distance

Two Cautions

Genre and Interpretation

OT Genres: Job & Ecclesiastes

NT Genres: Acts

NT Genres: Revelation

The Four Branches of Theology

Historical Theology

Practical Theology

A Theological Foundation

Christ and Interpreting the OT

Christ and Interpreting the NT

OT Narrative

The Biblical Necessity

A Biblical Template

Your Turn

Not Crashing the Plane

The Ultimate Goal

Biblical Foundations

Use Your Words (Paraphrasing)

Interpreting an OT Text

Interpreting a NT Text

You Turned to God from Idols

We Start from Where We Are

OT Genres: Narrative

Reading with Gregory and Friends

A Concern

Shadows of the Things to Come

The Use of Scripture

Reading with Calvin and Luther

Inquire Carefully

Intro to Biblical Poetry

Interpretation Can Be Wicked

Search the Scriptures

An Example (Matthew 3:7–10)

Hope in God

Follow the Logic (Arcing)

OT Law

The Subject of Our Interpretation

A Humble and Pure Heart

Disciples, Not Critics

OT Genres: Prophecy

NT Genres: Epistles

We Can and Should Understand the Bible

Systematic Theology

The Word of God in Its Fullness

Transformation

Reading with Ambrose

NT Epistles

The Gospel Revealed

Get the Grammar (Phrasing)

Your Reference Page

Sitewide

Courses

Path courses

Markup for Dartmouth

Markup for Hickory

Searching

Bible Logic

Block Diagramming

LIVE Path Courses

Path courses (inaccurate completion percentage since only completed enrollments from the old site were copied over)

Lesson 8: The Right Use of Scripture

Assignment

Biblical Hermeneutic Reference Page: Write the content from lesson 8 for your reference page here.

Applying the Principle

How does the Bible’s example teach you to use your chosen passage rightly?