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How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Genre and Literary Units
For the Church has initiated their blogs summarizing portions from my book, How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament. Following the introductory post, part 1 summarizes step one in the exegetical process––Genre. Understanding genre is critical for rightly...
How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 2—Literary Units and Text Hierarchy
Step #2 – Literary Units and Text Heirarchy Determining the Boundaries of a Text After genre, the next step in your exegesis is to determine the limits of the passage that you are studying. The limits of the passage could be a quotation, a paragraph, a story, a song,...
Creating a Text Hierarchy in the Hebrew Old Testament
Biblearc.com is my top tool for visually tracking a biblical author's flow-of-thought in order to determine a text's boundaries, structure, and main idea. I use Biblearc.com's phrasing module to create what I call a TEXT HIERARCHY of the thought-flow, and then I use...
Interpreting Scripture and the Day of the Lord
DeRouchie, Jason S. “Interpreting Scripture: A General Introduction" and "The Day of the Lord,” The Gospel Coalition, 23 September 2020, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/essay/interpreting-scripture-a-general-introduction/ and...
How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 1—Genre
Step #1: Genre When my oldest daughter was younger, she was a master of “genre” analysis. I saw it most clearly after her daily trip to the mailbox, when she would push aside the bills and advertisements to select the letters from friends or family. With every new...
How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: A Blog Journey
For most, interpreting the initial three fourths of the Bible, the Old Testament, is a challenge. To help alleviate this problem, in 2017 I wrote How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament. Now, I am condensing each chapter from my book into a blog series on...
The Use of Leviticus 18:5 in Galatians 3:12
Though Christians often think of the book of Romans when Martin Luther and the doctrine of justification by faith come to mind, Luther himself claims to have fixated upon Galatians, calling it his very wife. At the heart of this important letter, Paul quotes Lev 18:5...
Counting Stars with Abraham and the Prophets
For centuries Christians have discussed who is and isn’t part of the new covenant community. On one side of the debate have been covenant theologians and on the other side are dispensationalists of various kinds. My article, “Counting Stars with Abraham and the...
The Addressees in Zephaniah 2:1, 3
The Lord has recently allowed me to publish another article on Zephaniah, this one related to the identity of the book's audience: DeRouchie, Jason S. "The Addressees in Zephaniah 2:1, 3: Who Should Seek YHWH Together?" Bulletin for Biblical Research 30.2 (2020):...
What I Learned the Day I Almost Killed J. I. Packer
Great men inspire greatness, both in their lives and in their deaths. Such is true of James Innell Packer (1926–2020), whose life and ministry has forever marked my own. He and I only met once, and I have only read a handful of his books. But in this age, he is one...
About Jason S. DeRouchie
Dr. Jason DeRouchie (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a churchman and a passionate teacher driven to exalt Jesus from the Old Testament and to help Christians better grasp why the initial three-fourths of the Bible matters for Christians. He is Research Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology and Rich and Judy Hastings Endowed Chair of Old Testament Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He also serves as Content Developer and Global Trainer with Hands to the Plow Ministries and as a pastor of Sovereign Joy Baptist Church in the northland of Kansas City, MO.
