Reddit reviews Grasping God's Word: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible

Elements of Exegesis the guy is a moderate evangelical, but the ideas here are pretty good.

How to read the Bible for all its worth by Fee and Stuart Great intro to reading the different genres of scripture. Two evangelical scholars.

Invitation to Biblical Interpretation Written by two heavy hitting scholars, it's a big book with a ton of info on how to interpret all parts of scripture.

Grasping God's Word Probably a good place to start as it is a workbook/textbook rolled into one. You get a lot of great info with tons of exercises.

1. A more technical and textbook like approach, but also hands on: Grasping God's Word by J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays.
   
2. A more fellowship approached to exegesis: Gospel Centered Discipleship by Dodson and Chandler

The textbook I used in my hermeneutics class was [Grasping God's Word] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0310492572/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=30968505261&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11654403599380140192&hvpone=22.16&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_1x21vrvqwq_b) with a supplement text of [How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth] (http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Bible-All-Worth/dp/0310246040). Both I would suggest, they take a position of inerrancy and do an excellent job of teaching Scriptural study.

Get yourself a copy of Grasping God's Word by Duvall and Hayes. There are plenty of good books on how to exegete the Bible but frankly this is the best I have ever read for a relative beginner. You don't need to know Greek or Hebrew, but down the line as you get into it, if you wanted there are things like Strongs guides, Interlinears, Eclectic Texts like the Nestle-Aland 28th edition. And some free computer programs. Biblos.com is a free resource with more material than most people will ever need... I go there a lot when I need to reference the Masoretic text. But they have commentaries and other resources as well.

Exegesis is looking at Scripture and trying to figure out what it originally meant to its audience. This means studying the historical context surrounding the verse. Someone mentioned Isaiah 53 not being about the Messiah. Why do they believe this? Well if you look at the historical context it makes sense that it's about Israel and/or Isaiah himself. Isaiah was traditionally believed to be martyred by the king of Israel. But later in the New Testament Paul applies a new meaning to the verse and attributes it to Christ. Which is right? Well as a Christian I would say both are important. Hermeneutics is merely taking what you learned through exegesis and applying it to a modern context or what it means to us.

As for learning more about it I could name many different books, but here are the ones I read first:

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

Grasping God's Word

Inspiration and Incarnation

Hey, I know this is late, but if you're still watching this post, I have a couple books for you. I have no idea what you mean by "middleweight-heavy," so I'll just list a few I use and teach from. I'm working on my M.Div. at a Southern Baptist Seminary, so you know I'm not a Ph.D. or an expert.

1. Gordon Fee. He has a couple good books, How to Read the Bible Book by Book and How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth. These books give a great overview of the hermeneutics of the Bible, and while I recommend them as a great way to get a little deeper, definitely aren't for the faint of heart.
   
   
2. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation by Klein, Bloomberg, and Hubbard. This is one of our Intro to Hermeneutics texts at Midwestern Baptist Seminary.
   
   
3. Grasping God's Word by Duvall and Hays. Our other Intro to Hermeneutics text. Gives you lots of examples and practice that I love and use this method when I'm preaching or teaching on a text.
   
   And two I'm not as familiar with, but should be interesting for you:
   
   
4. The Plainly Revealed Word of God? A book written specifically about Baptist hermeneutics. It says that it was mostly English Baptists, but had input from the US and Eastern Europe.
   
   
5. How to Read the Bible Like a Seminary Professor by Mark Yarbrough of DTS. I haven't read this one, so I have no idea what level it would be at, but thought you might be interested because of the DTS connection.
   
   To be honest, I haven't read Traina, and am not sure what sorts of things you've been getting from DTS, so I hope this is helpful. And if not, maybe it will be for someone clicking here to see what books people recommend.