How to Read the Bible

by John Allen Hudson

Synopsis:
In How to Read the Bible, Hudson looks inside the nature of the revelation of God to his people and elaborates on the processes used in studying it.

This book has been designed to be useful to a wide range of readers, and therefore focuses on a more practical, common-sense application. Each chapter includes thought questions at the end.

246 pages, hardback.
Contents:

• Introduction
• Employing Our Natural Faculties in a Natural Way in Reading the Bible
• Determining the Sense of Scripture
• Obstacles to the Interpretation of the Scripture
• Silence is Greater - Limiting Interpretation
• The Faith and the Believer - Correct Basis for Interpreting the Scripture
• Historic Background
• The Nature of Divine Revelation
• Finding the Sense of Scripture
• Methods of Reading the Bible
• Figurative Language in the Bible
• Bible Inferences or Correct Bible Deductions
• How to Construe the Miraculous in Reading the Bible
• Practical Reading of the Bible
• Double Fulfillment of Prophecy
• The Context in Interpreting the Scripture
• Historical Interpretation
• Three Great Ages of Religion
• Type and Antitype
• Type and Antitype - In Contrast or Opposition
• Other Types Set Forth in Scripture
• Interpretation of Prophecy through History

246 pages