BI-212 Old Testament Historical Books

Joshua to Esther shows what happened when Israel tried to live as God's people in the land. Follow the story, and see how it points forward to Christ.

Following OT Historical Books, this course goes from the crossing of the Jordan, through the judges and the kings, to the exile and the return to rebuild the temple. You see how these books judge Israel by God's covenant. Then you read them forward with the New Testament, which finds in Christ the true king, prophet and temple, the end of exile and the new covenant.

What you will study

• Joshua, Judges and Ruth: the land as God's gift, and the cycle of failure and rescue
• Samuel, Saul and David: the people ask for a king
• God's covenant with David, and David's sin
• Solomon, the divided kingdom, and the prophets Elijah and Elisha
• The fall of Jerusalem and the exile
• Ezra and Nehemiah: the return and an unfinished restoration
• How the New Testament reads these books, chiefly through patterns that point to Christ
• Christ the king, the prophet, the true temple and the new covenant

Course materials

• OT Historical Books, a WWES textbook
• The Bible