Description: In this course students are assigned to read the Weekly Torah Portion (3-Year Cycle) and then discuss it with fellow students and teachers in the online forum. Course participation is required for students enrolled in a Certificate Program and strongly encouraged for all others.
Instructors: Tim Hegg, Rob Vanhoff, Ariel Berkowitz
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Description: A general overview of the Jewish sects of the 1st Century. This course will explore the Jewish backgrounds in which Yeshua & His disciples lived. Some of the areas covered: daily life among Jewish sects; the Temple in 1st Century Judaisms; Qumran–Dead Sea Scrolls; theological disputes among the competing sects.
Instructor: Rob Vanhoff
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Description: A continuing reading class to enhance the students ability to read Biblical Hebrew with more fluency. We will begin in 2Kings 9:20.
- Teacher: Rob Vanhoff
Description: To become more fluent in reading Biblical Greek. This will be accomplished by reading and translating the text in order to acquire vocabulary, review grammar and learn principles of discourse analysis.
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Description: A study of selected messianic texts of the Tanach with an emphasis upon understanding what the prophets foretold about His person and work. The Hebrew texts will be studied in parallel with the Lxx, Targumim, and rabbinic commentaries to offer further insights into the reception and interpretation of these texts within the Jewish communities of the late 2nd Temple period. The emphasis of the class will be to discern what the ancient Israelite prophets revealed about the person and work of the Messiah.
Instructor: Tim Hegg
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Description: This class must be taken after completion of Beginning Hebrew Grammar unless the student is able to test out prior to beginning this course. Study of Hebrew Syntax and its application in the various genres of the Tanach.
Instructor: Tim Hegg
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Description: An exploration into the canonization of the Bible from ancient times to our modern Bibles.
This class provides an in-depth understanding of the history and background of our Bible. The content of each class will illuminate and inform you about various aspects of the struggles and victories throughout history that have brought the Word of God to us today, resulting in a better ability to defend the Word of God, and in addition, giving a better understanding of the history involved.Instructor: Tim Hegg, M.Div., Th.M.
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Description: Introduction to the Masorah of BHS; the history of the Masorah; reading selected texts and observing the Masorah notes.
Instructor: Tim Hegg
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Description: Beginning basic Hebrew will give you the foundation to read and translate the Hebrew Bible of the Tanach.
Basics of biblical Hebrew will give you the foundations to read and make your way through the Hebrew Bible. This class is three-quarters long, and students need to remember that learning a language is difficult but very rewarding.
Instructor: Tim Hegg
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Description: Beginning basic biblical Greek will give you the foundation to read and translate the Greek Bible of the Apostolic Scriptures.
Basics of biblical Greek will give you the foundations to read and make your way through the Greek New Testament. This class is three-quarters long, and students need to remember that learning a language is difficult but very rewarding.
Instructor: Rob Vanhoff
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Description: This class will provide the student the basic instructions and skills for doing academic research, including a survey of available computer software for biblical studies. Proper styles and acceptable guidelines for writing academic papers will be covered.
Instructor: Rob Vanhoff
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Description: Completion of Beginning Biblical Greek is required in order to take this class. The study of Greek syntax as demonstrated in the koine Greek of the Apostolic Scriptures. Selected texts from the Apostolic Scriptures will be will be studied to illustrate the syntax being learned.
This is the first quarter of a two-quarter Greek Syntax course. Building upon the foundation of our first-year orientation to Greek grammar, we will be working through Mounce's Graded Reader (20 Chapters) divided over two 10-week quarters.
Instructor: Rob Vanhoff
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Description: Beginning Hebrew Grammar is a prerequisite for taking this class. A study of Biblical Aramaic; grammar, and reading of the Aramaic portions of the Tanach.
Instructor: Rob Vanhoff
- Teacher: Rob Vanhoff
Description: A 10-week overview of the geography of the Land of Israel, particularly as it relates to the biblical narrative. In other places, this same course might be known by other titles, such as “The Land of the Bible” or “Historical Geography of The Bible Lands, etc.” As a geography course, we will become acquainted with the land features, the climate, the roads, and the flora of ancient/biblical Israel. We will also make every attempt to relate Israel’s geographic features with events recorded in the Bible.
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