Full course description
Course Title: The Book of Romans
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- ✡Course Code: BHD 106 T-2
- ✡Discipline: B'rit Hadashah (New Testament Studies)
- ✡Prerequisites: None.
- ✡Instructor in the Video Lectures: Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum
- ✡Length: 16 Modules of curriculum content, 15 hours of lecture content comprised of 18 video presentations
The epistle to the Romans is unique, being the first time in history that theology had been systematized in written form. The first eight chapters in Paul’s theological treatise deal with the theology of God’s righteousness. No human being can meet God’s standards of righteousness, yet He has provided righteousness through salvation in Yeshua the Messiah, which includes justification, sanctification, and glorification. Thus, the chapters end with Paul’s assurance that absolutely nothing can separate believers from the love of God.
Before going on to apply these truths to the believer’s life (chapters 12-16), Paul first addresses God’s righteousness in His relationship with Israel (chapters 9-11), for at the end of chapter 8, the believer might wonder what was to become of God’s many promises to Israel that had been laid out in the Hebrew Bible. Israel today is largely a people in a state of unbelief. It does not appear that God’s promises to His people were kept in Paul’s day, let alone two thousand years later. If this was or is true of Israel, how can the believer today trust that there is indeed nothing that can separate him from the love of God? If the gospel is for the Jews first, as Paul writes in Romans 1:16, why are so few Jews saved? How do Gentiles know they can trust God if His promises to Israel have not been fulfilled?
In this course, Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum addresses these and other critical issues whose proper understanding can truly revolutionize any believer’s walk with the Lord. Dr. Fruchtenbaum is one of the most respected Messianic Jewish scholars of this generation and is therefore well-qualified to discuss the Jewish context of the epistle to the Romans. As a dispensational theologian, he offers his readers a truly unique commentary that draws them closer to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Ariel's Bible Commentary: The Book of Romans by Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum.
- To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture and History, edited by Darell Bock and Mitch Glaser.
- Purchase information is listed on the course syllabus.
- There are a number of other required resources for this course (e.g. journal articles, audio files, expository notes on Romans, etc.) and we provide these to students at no addtional cost.
Module 1 – Preliminary Matters
Video Presentation 1 – Preliminary Matters: Authorship to Theme
Module 2 – Romans 1:1-17
Video Presentation 2 – Romans 1:1-17, The Revelation of Righteousness
Module 3 – Romans 1:18 to 2:16
Video Presentation 3 – Romans 1:18 to 2:16, The Guilt of the Gentiles
Module 4 – Romans 2:17 to 3:20
Video Presentation 4 – Romans 2:17 to 3:20, The Guilt of the Jews and The Proof of Universal Guilt
Module 5 – Romans 3:21 to 4:25
Video Presentation 5 – Manifestation, Harmonization, and Illustration
Module 6 – Romans 5:1 to 5:21
Video Presentation 6 – Exultation and Application
Module 7 – Romans 6:1 -23
Video Presentation 7 – The Basis and New Principle of Sanctification
Module 8 – Romans 7:1-25
Video Presentation 8 – The New Relationship in Sanctification
Module 9 – Romans 8:1-17
Video Presentation 9– The True Power for Sanctification
Module 10 – Romans 8:18-39
Video Presentation 10 – The Future Facet of Salvation
Module 11 – Romans 9:1-29
Video Presentation 11– Consideration of Israel’s Rejection of the Messiah
Module 12 – Romans 9:30 to 10:21
Video Presentation 12 – The Explanation of Israel’s Rejection
Module 13 – Romans 11:1-36
Video Presentation 13 – Romans 11:1-36, The Consolation of Israel’s Rejection of the Messiah and the Summary of Paul’s Teaching
Module 14 – Romans 12:1-21
Video Presentation 14 – Application to the Assembly
Module 15 – Romans 13:1 to 15:13
Video Presentation 15a – Romans 13:1-14, Application to the State
Video Presentation 15b – Romans 14:1 to 15:13, Application to Non-moral Issues
Module 16 – Romans 15:14 to 16:27
Video Presentation 16a –Romans 15:14 to 33, Paul’s Purpose in Writing and Paul’s Plan for the Future
Video Presentation 16b – Romans 16:1-27, Paul’s Desire and Warning
