About Sound Interpretation Project
Sound Interpretation Project features the teaching of John A. “Jack” Crabtree (augmented at times by the teaching of other like-minded teachers and bible students).
About Jack Crabtree
John A. “Jack” Crabtree graduated with honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa when he graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with an A.B. degree in philosophy. Jack began to study and teach the Bible for the next twenty years—first at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California and subsequently (beginning in 1981) at McKenzie Study Center in Eugene, Oregon. Eventually, Jack returned to graduate school and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oregon in 1992. He then went on to serve as a tutor at Gutenberg College (a Great-Books curriculum college) from 1994 to 2016. From 2016 to the present, Jack has been teaching the Bible and related topics through Sound Interpretation Project.
In one capacity or another, Jack has been teaching the Bible, theology, and philosophy for about 50 years. The focus of his study and teaching has been on the translation and interpretation of biblical texts (especially the New Testament, with an emphasis on understanding the apostolic gospel), the worldview and philosophy of the Bible, the history of philosophy and theology, religious epistemology, and hermeneutics.
In addition to numerous papers, articles, and audio files that Jack has produced, he is a co-author of The Language of God: A Commonsense Approach to Understanding and Applying the Bible. And he is the sole author of The Most Real Being: A Biblical and Philosophical Defense of Divine Determinism (Gutenberg College Press).
Jack currently lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife Jody. They have four grown children and eight grandchildren.