BI-5003 Introduction to the Old Testament

Study the whole Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi, with a standard evangelical introduction, and learn to read, preach and teach it with understanding.

The course follows Longman and Dillard's An Introduction to the Old Testament. Book by book, you look at each book's historical setting, its literary character and its theological message, and you follow its themes into the New Testament. You also learn how scholars debate questions of date and authorship, and how to weigh those debates fairly.

What you will study

• Reading the Old Testament as history, as literature and as theology, in the light of Christ
• The books of Moses and the history of Israel, from Genesis to Kings
• Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah and Esther
• The books of wisdom and worship: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs
• The prophets, from Isaiah to Malachi
• Great themes: covenant, God's presence and holiness, kingship, wisdom, judgment and hope
• How the New Testament takes up the Old, and how to use it in preaching and teaching

Course materials

• An Introduction to the Old Testament (Tremper Longman III and Raymond B. Dillard), the textbook you obtain
• The Bible