THE HANDBOOK TO BIBLE STUDY

Paul S. Karleen

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

This electronic publication is a revision by the author for computer usage of The Handbook to Bible Study: With a Guide to the Scofield Study System, published in 1987 by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, and copyright © 1987 by Paul S. Karleen. The text is licensed by Oxford University Press to BF Press, P.O. Box L-601, Langhorne, Pennsylvania 19047. Revisions have been made only for purposes of adaptation to general computer usage, and include the elimination of information relating to the Scofield Bible. The electronic form of the text is owned by Tri Star Publishing, 275 Gibraltar Rd., Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044 and is licensed to BF Press.

Copyright © 1994 by Paul S. Karleen

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“This book is intended as a companion to the New Scofield Reference Bible”—Pref. Bibliography: p. Includes index.

1. Bible—Study—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Scofield reference Bible system—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.

BS600.2.K33 1987 220’.07 87-5569

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Scripture quotations marked NASB are from the New American Standard Bible, Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977.

Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

Preface

This handbook was originally published as a companion to The New Scofield Reference Bible. Several specific goals shaped its writing and final form:

1. It is aimed primarily at the average reader and not the Bible scholar, although it is based on scholarly work.

2. If used carefully it can take a new student of the Bible to a place of stability in interpretation.

3. It can function as a concise reference tool.

4. It will open doors to new areas of ...