Patriarch - Answers the male head of a family or tribe
The Law - Answers First five books of the old testimate
Pentateuch - Answers A Greek word meaning "five books," referring to the first five books of the
Old Testament.
How many books in bible - Answers 66 (39 OT and 27 NT)
What is the Bible about? - Answers Gods plan to Rescue, redeem and restore the lost.
Theology - Answers the study of religion and God
redeem - Answers to buy back, make amends
Restore - Answers to bring back to an original state our relationship we once had with God
before the fall of Adam
Genesis and Job - Answers beginning; origin; 2 sections. Chapters 1-11 (creation, humanities
fall into sin, the flood and the Tower of Babel. Chapters 12-50 cover patriarchs of Israel.
Job is beloved to take place same time as Genesis. Oldest book in the Bible.
Exodus - Answers Ch 1-18 Gods deliverance for his people from slavery.
19-24; Gods covenant with Israel
Ch 20; 10 Commandments
Ch 25-40; people rebelling you building a golden calf, judgement, renewal of the covenant,
construction of tabernacle
Leviticus - Answers Guide people to worship God; fundamental categories of priesthood and
atonement for sin setting background for Christ sacrificial death.
Numbers - Answers How God prepared Israel to enter the Promise Land. Name from the
multiple censuses Moses took of the people. Extra 40 years were tacked on before the promise
land because of their unbelief. 12 spies reconed Canaan. They reported a great nation that
couldn't be defeated.
, Deuteronomy - Answers second law includes laws from Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.
Joshua - Answers Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land
Judges - Answers AKA cycle of judges. Ideal would rebel, God punishes them, Isreal would
repent, God would save them through a Judge. Record of generations of judges following the
conquest of Canaan.
Ruth - Answers Same time as Judges but in contrast to Judges it's a story about Ruth and Boaz,
ancestors of David and Christ.
1 Samual - Answers Samual anoints first King, Saul. God rejects Saul for disobedience then
David is anointed King
2 Samuel - Answers King David's story.
Psalms - Answers Praise and worship from David (only half of Psalms.
1 Chronicles - Answers Parallels events of 2 Samual
1 Kings - Answers Kings Solomon third king to rule Israel before it was divided. Second half of
book Benjiman and Judah form the southern Kingdom of Judah.
King Solomon wrote what books of the Bible - Answers Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, most of
Proverbs
2 Kings - Answers Story of both kingdoms ran mostly by evil Kings. God rose up prophets when
royal leadership failed to listen to God. Northern Kingdom, Israel was worst of the two.
Assyrians defeated Israel in 722BC and Babylon concurred Judah in 586BC. Northern kingdom
will never return.
Ezra - Answers Judah's return after 77 year exile in Babylon and the rebuilding of the temple.
Esther - Answers Same time as Ezra. Not all Jews left Babylon which was concurred by Persia.
Esther was queen. Plan to kill all Jews was foiled.
Nehemiah - Answers Jerusalem walls constructed, Jews recommit to Sabbath, laws and
reading of scriptures.
Prophetic Books 3 sections - Answers Preexilic, exilic, posrexilic prophets
Preexilic Prophets - Answers Prophets who lived and preached before the conquests of the
northern and southern kingdoms
Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah