Different Christians have different views on how to perform Biblical Exegesis.

Members of the council of governors included Professor Arthur Peake and Professor F. F. Bruce both biblical critics and Rylands Professors of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis.

F. F. Bruce, then Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, declared that " To the sponsors and translators of the New English Bible the English speaking world owes an immense debt.

The disciplines offered are: Biblical Exegesis, Church History, Dogmatics, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion.

The Catholic Encyclopedia lists a number of principles guiding Roman Catholic hermeneutics in the article on Exegesis ( note: the Catholic Encyclopedia was written in 1917 and does not reflect the changes set forth by the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu published by Pius XII in 1943, which opened modern Catholic Biblical scholarship ):

In 1959 he moved to the University of Manchester where he became Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis.

* Biblical Exegesis in the Qumran Texts.

* Exegesis, Biblical Erwin Fahlbusch and Geoffrey William Bromiley, The Encyclopedia of Christianity ( Grand Rapids, Mich .; Leiden, Netherlands: Wm.

In the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), there are four exams: Theology, Worship and Sacraments, Polity, and Biblical Exegesis ( undertaken in either Biblical Greek or Hebrew.

His books include How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, and How to Read the Bible Book-By-Book, ( both of which he co-authored with New Testament scholar and then fellow Gordon-Conwell professor Gordon Fee ); Old Testament Exegesis: A Primer for Students and Pastors ; Hosea-Jonah ( Word Biblical Commentary ); and Exodus ( New American Commentary ).

“ Caesarea, Rome, and the Captivity Epistles .” Pages 277-86 in Apostolic History and the Gospel: Biblical and Historical Essays Presented to F. F. Bruce.

To this point, the Apostolic Assembly currently has in most of its districts a CBAN ( Colegio Biblico Apostolico Nacional or a National Apostolic Biblical College ) College and it is now necessary that all deacons seeking ordination must attend courses in their District's CBAN, if there is one available to attend.

( Although it did not become part of the Christian Biblical canon, it was widely circulated among Christians in the first two centuries and is part of the Apostolic Fathers.

The Mar Thoma Church defines itself as " Apostolic in origin, Universal in nature, Biblical in faith, Evangelical in principle, Ecumenical in outlook, Oriental in worship, Democratic in function, and Episcopal in character ".

Apostolic History and the Gospel: Biblical and Historical Essays Presented to F. F. Bruce on his 60th Birthday.

Classical Armenian continues to be the liturgical language of the Armenian Apostolic Church and is often learned by Biblical, Intertestamental, and Patristic scholars dedicated to textual studies.

Individual Biblical books and passages, along with statements of Apostles and ministers of the New Apostolic Church, must have grounding in the Holy Scriptures.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are traditionally divided into three groups: " Biblical " manuscripts ( copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 40 % of the identified scrolls ; Other manuscripts ( known documents from the Second Temple Period like Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach, additional psalms, etc., that were not ultimately canonized in the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls ; and " Sectarian " manuscripts ( previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism ) like the Community Rule, War Scroll, Pesher on Habakkuk ( Hebrew: פשר pesher = " Commentary "), and the Rule of the Blessing, which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls.

A prolific author, his major works include Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, The Archaeology of Palestine: From the Stone Age to Christianity, and The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra.

* The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra

* William G. Dever, Gezer Revisited: New Excavations of the Solomonic and Assyrian Period Defenses, The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol.

Since it is believed that John lived so long and was the last of the twelve to die, there is some overlap between the " Apostolic Age " and the first Apostolic Fathers, whose writings are used to mark the beginning of the Ante-Nicene Period.