Three Methods of Conducting Study Programs

Forensic Scriptures opens with introductory material and then divides into Part One, Part Two and Part Three for the Hebrew, Christian and Muslim Scriptures. The introductory material includes the Foreword, Prologue, Preface and Introduction and is included below for the use of members of study groups who may register and purchase their books at the first session or read in advance by downloading this material after August, 2009, by clicking as indicated on the bottom of this page.

The sessions could correspond to the twenty-two chapters, allowing ample time for discussion.  Three “semesters” in autumn, winter and spring might be eight weeks, seven and seven respectively. In this case, group leaders or teachers will wish to refer forward to the Summation, Chapter Nineteen, to provide participants with hands-on experience with reference to the diagram exercises in the final sessions of semesters on Hebrew and Christian Scriptures.

Alternately, a program might well consist of six sessions, following the reading of the Introductory material or having it introduced in a sermon or speech to the congregation or group. The three Parts would then get two sessions each, one in any combination of lecture and discussion and a second as a “laboratory session,” employing "A Diagram of Sources of the Pentateuch" for the Hebrew Scriptures, "A Diagram of Synoptic Relationships" for the Christian Scriptures and "The Revelations of Allah in the Holy Qur’an" in reference to Muslim Scriptures.

Finally, one day events can be conducted with the Introduction in brief, followed by the three sections as "three points" of a sermon by the author, the local clergy or a visiting scholar. Lunch or refreshments are served and participation takes place in the form of a Q&A (Question and Answer) session as modelled on the new preface to the paperback edition of Noah's Other Son. 

FORENSIC SCRIPTURES

Critical Analysis of Scripture and
What the Qur’an Reveals About the Bible

By BRIAN ARTHUR BROWN

With a foreword by
Principal Joy Abdul-Mohan, St. Andrew’s Theological College, Trinidad
with Rabbi Justus Baird, Director, Auburn Multi-faith Centre, New York
Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, Georgia
and Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University, California