Study of hermeneutics book suggestions

[Dieter Schneider]

You might find this one of interest:

Milton S. Terry, Biblical Hermeneutics: A Treatise on the Interpretation of the Old and New Testaments (Zondervan, 1974).

I have read this ... It was very profitable.

Here is an online reference.

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

Dennis E. Johnson, Him We Proclaim
Amazon.com: Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures: Dennis E. Johnson: Books

with a focus on discovering the Christological thrust of the whole Bible, that is, how any passage points finally to its principal subject

I cannot recommend Dennis Johnson's book enough...

 

[RamistThomist]

and How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth seemed like it should rather be entitled, How to Read the Bible for 12% Of What It's Worth.

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My thoughts exactly. Even before I was reformed I thought the book pedantic and annoying. Fee's New Testament exegesis is much better (in theory if not in practice).

 

[py3ak]

Thanks for the tip, Hermonta. I've added that book to my wish list.

 

[timmopussycat]

Those considering reading Fee's New Testament Exegesis should make sure to get the 3rd edition of 2002for its tremendous section on exegetical aids and resources.

 

[reformedman]

I've never read it, but have been concerned about it given the fact that he's a firmly-committed Arminian...

I know lots of Calvinists who like "Heremeneutical Spiral". I own a copy and have poked around in it some. The author doesn't give the reader a mode of interpretation so much as he equips the reader, regardless of what the reader believes, to reexamine some presuppositions about Scripture, and God for that matter.

I am currently reading Amazon.com: Meaning and Understanding: The Philosophical Framework for Biblical Interpretation (Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation): Royce Gordon Gruenler: Books and loving it!

I have not read that book but it was highly reccomended to me by someone who holds to the doctrines of grace and the reformed tradition.

Required reading at a fundamental baptist (4 point) seminary that I attended. Can't say I'd recommend it as it was my turning point time to reformed theology so I did not finish the course. As far as I can remember, there was nothing that at the time I considered (standout) wrong. Although I'd have to agree, it's a very popular book.

 

[ServantofGod]

Any thoughts on Robertson McQuilkin's Understanding and Applying the Bible?

I read it for my hermenuetics class, and was wondering if you would recommend for me to recommend it or not. It seemed to me a pretty simple, basic, yet decent work.

 

[danmpem]

Required reading at a fundamental baptist (4 point) seminary that I attended. Can't say I'd recommend it as it was my turning point time to reformed theology so I did not finish the course. As far as I can remember, there was nothing that at the time I considered (standout) wrong. Although I'd have to agree, it's a very popular book.

Do you mean Hermeneutical Spiral or Meaning and Understanding?