Part 1 - Historical overview

Introduction
1. The importance of the history of interpretation
2. Seven main schools of interpretation
2.1. Antiquity
2.2. Alexandria school
2.3. Patristic exegesis
2.3.1. A literal and realistic school
A. Tertullian
V. Cyprian
2.3.2. Allegorical school
A. Origen
B. Jerome
2.3.3. Historical and grammar school
A. Feodor Mopsuestiyskyi
B. Chrysostom
2.3.4. Augustine
2.4. Scholastic exegesis
2.4.1. What prevented the interpretation of the Bible in this era
A. Abelard
B. Peter Lombardsky
C. Followers of Hugo Saint-Victorsky
2.4.2. Some disadvantages of scholastic exegesis
2.4.3. Renaissance
A. Nikolay Lyrsky
B. Erasmus of Rotterdam
2.4.4. Truth casts out delusion
2.5. Hermeneutics of the reformers
A. Martin Luther
B.Jean Calvin
2.5.1. Significance of the Reformation for exegesis
2.5.2. The importance of studying hermeneutics
2.5.3. Orthodoxy
2.6. The period after the Reformation
2.6.1. Eighteenth century
2.7. The modern era (from the 19th century to the present day)
A. Richard Chenevix Trench
B. Ethelbert Bullinger
2.7.1. Contemporary books on interpretation

Part 2 - Rules of interpretation

1. Our main basic principles
2. The importance of interpretation
3. A word of caution
4. Basic rules of interpretation
5. Explanation of the basic rules of interpretation
6. Rules concerning specific areas of interpretation: prototypes, symbols and prophecies
6.1. Symbols
6.1.1. Symbolism and numerical value
6.1.2. Symbolism and meaning of color
6.2. Prophecies
7. The importance of understanding figurative expressions
7.1. Learning figurative language
7.2. The most important are figurative expressions, or physical figures
7.2.1. Figures of speech of comparison
7.2.2. Substitution figures of speech (substitutions)
7.2.3. Figures of speech linking words
7.2.4. Exaggeration figures of speech
7.2.5. Other figures of speech and idioms
8. Stages of interpretation of a text or a biblical passage