Exodus records the instructions and events of the plagues for the purpose of showing how the Lord revealed […]
Category Archive: Doctrine
Declarations Hardenings I [Yahweh] will harden Pharaoh’s heart. Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh. Pharaoh’s heart was hardened. […]
Moses’ Questions and Concerns Yahweh’s Responses and Signs Who am I that I should go? (3:11). I will […]
Location Age Reference Egypt 0–40 Ex. 2:11; Acts 7:23 Midian 41–80 Ex. 2:15; 7:7; Acts 7:29–30 The wilderness 81–120 Deut. […]
Adam (5:3–5) 130/930 Seth (5:6–8) 105/912 Enosh (5:9–11) 90/905 Kenan (5:12–14) 70/910 Mahalalel (5:15–17) 65/895 Jared (5:18–20) 162/962 […]
Action Purpose Desire They built a city .… … in order not to be dispersed over the face of […]
Event Age of Joseph Genesis Joseph’s father Jacob moves family from Haran to Canaan 6 31:17–21 Joseph sold […]
Event Age of Jacob Genesis Jacob’s grandfather Abraham dies 15 25:7 Jacob sent to Laban in Haran 77 […]
Event Age of Isaac Genesis Isaac’s mother Sarah dies 37 23:1 Isaac marries Rebekah 40 25:20 Isaac fathers […]
Offspring Explanation Examples Natural, physical offspring Physical descendants of Abraham Ishmael, Isaac, the sons of Keturah (and by […]
Event Age of Abraham Genesis Abram departs from Haran, enters Canaan 75 12:4–5 Abram fathers Ishmael with Hagar […]
Dates are in the form of month, day, and Noah’s year, as given in the text. Hence, 2/10/600 […]
Location Inhabitants 1. Light and dark 4. Lights of day and night 2. Sea and sky 5. Fish […]
Primeval History (1:1–11:26) Introduction General heading Specific heading Section introduced 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens […]
The Hebrew calendar was composed of 12 lunar months, each of which began when the thin crescent moon […]
The following dates (all b.c.) are close approximations based on correlating dates between the Bible and other ancient Near […]
(See Overview of the Bible, for a fuller explanation of the “History of Salvation.” The notes in this feature […]
Almost every book in the NT has something to say about false beliefs and those who advocate them. […]
The Bible and Contemporary Judaism Early History (c. 2100 b.c.–586 b.c.) Beginning with Abraham, the founding “rock” of the Jewish […]
Roman Catholicism Roman Catholicism and Protestantism have many beliefs in common, both adhering to the truths expressed in […]
As C. S. Lewis once observed, “one of the rewards of reading the Old Testament regularly” is that […]
The term Septuagint is commonly used today to refer to the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures, the books that […]
Hebrew and Aramaic, and How They Work Introduction The main language of the OT is Classical Hebrew, but […]
Archaeology and the Reliability of the Old Testament Definition of Archaeology Archaeology may be defined as the systematic study […]
The Reliability of the Old Testament Manuscripts Introduction At the beginning of the twentieth century, textual criticism of […]
The Canon of the Old Testament The word “canon” (Gk. for “a rule”) is applied to the Bible […]
Reading the Bible Theologically To read the Bible “theologically” means to read the Bible “with a focus on […]
Interpreting the Bible: An Introduction The Bible contains 66 books, written in three languages over 1,500 years by […]
Biblical Ethics: An Introduction From the beginning of the Bible to the end, God gives people specific instructions […]