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Top 10 Posts on Bible Study Methods

January 5, 2024 By Peter Krol

The entire reason for this blog’s existence is to help ordinary people learn to study the Bible. That requires us to impart principles and methods to help you along your way. Sometimes we back up and give sweeping tools and directions. At other times we zero in on a particular skill. All along the way, we encourage you to try these things at home and keep practicing.

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Continuing in the spirit of the top 10 lists presented over the last few weeks, here are 2023’s top 10 most-viewed posts in the “Method” category. If you browse the full list, you’ll see that we’ve currently got 271 installments. So if you have time to read only 10 of them, you may want to consider these 10.

  1. Three Important Contexts for Bible Study
  2. Why We Reread the Bible
  3. Studying the Bible is Not Code Breaking
  4. Finding Repeated Words and Themes
  5. Two Ways to Outline a Bible Passage
  6. What We Miss When We Skip the Book of Nehemiah
  7. The Most Important Tool for Observing the Structure of a Narrative Episode
  8. My Favorite Way to Read the New Testament
  9. Details of the OIA Method
  10. Summary of the OIA Method
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