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This is Project Timothy's Guides to the Old and New Testaments.
Each book covers the different genres of writing and features biblical exegesis and hermeneutics in engagement with archaeology, the sciences, philosophy and historiography.
This is an ideal set of books for Christians as well as skeptics who seek a no nonsense examination of the Bible.
Written by an evangelical independent scholar, the contents are not beholden to any hidden agenda or denominational requirements. The only affirmation of the author is that the Bible is an inspired writing to guide the confessional follower of Jesus, the Christ.
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The Story of Project Timothy
I was a Christian for long before I realized that I had little actual knowledge of the Bible. Oh, I learned a lot from what others told me and read about what the Bible reportedly said. But I did not have an organized way to read, let alone understand this huge book with difficult words. I tried many ‘Read the Bible in a Year’ guides. All I ended up with was either pointless guilt for not keeping up or reading without understanding. This was a frustrating and embarrassing part of my Christian life. I did not know when the books were written, to whom they addressed, why they were written in this or that style, the significance of the possible dates of their compositions, the final forms, and their intended messages. Reading technical books was too great an obstacle – and I was a full-time Christian worker!
After graduating from seminary in 1999, I read everything I could about the art and science of exegesis and hermeneutics. Three years later, I was prepared. On January 2002, I conducted an experiment with six international students with no academic background in biblical studies. I wanted to see if I could teach lay Christians a fresh way to read the Bible, not for memorization, but for understanding, so they could teach others. I called ‘the discipleship of the mind.’ I wanted Christians to engage their biblical knowledge with any field of human inquiry they encountered at work or at school. I asked the participants to rewrite the editorial and Op-Ed pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal with a biblical worldview. I introduced them to biblical archaeology, philology, the natural sciences, historiography and the benefits of word studies and chart/map reading. Project Timothy was the result. (2 Timothy 4:2-5)
Most of us rarely engage in conversation about the Bible because there is no common reading schedule. Now anyone, anywhere, can join a disciplined reading community that encourages thinking things through in a theological safe space. This volume combines sections on how to interpret the different genres with introductory sections on the biblical texts. We hope you will grow in your understanding of God and the Bible through Project Timothy as you learn to “be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)
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