BI-101 Old Testament Survey

Read the Old Testament as one story, from creation to the long wait for Christ. Learn its covenants, kings and prophets, and see how it all points to Jesus.

This course takes you through the Old Testament in order, with the WWES textbook and the Bible itself. You learn to tell the story, to follow God's covenant and his promise of a king, and to read each kind of writing in its own setting before you apply it today.

What you will study

• Creation, the fall and God's covenant with Abraham
• The exodus, the law given at Sinai and the journey to the land
• Judges and kings: Israel's rise, division and decline
• Exile and return: judgment, hope and rebuilding
• The prophets and the wisdom books, and how each kind of writing speaks
• How the Old Testament came to us, and why its text can be trusted
• The 400 years between the Testaments and the road to Christ

Course materials

• Old Testament Survey, a WWES textbook
• The Bible