Featured studies · 114 live, 4 in preparation
Books of the Bible
114 featured studies ask what a whole book of the Bible says from end to end, listed by the part of the canon each one stands in.
What these studies ask
One study for each book, with the studies of how the Bible came to us and how its writers wrote. This is the place to begin a book from end to end.
The parts of the canon
- Torah12 live
- History13 live
- Wisdom and Poetry8 live, 2 in preparation
- Prophets21 live, 2 in preparation
- Gospels13 live
- Acts and the Letters33 live
- Revelation2 live
- The Apocrypha12 live
The books of the bible on the index of every featured study, 114 studies
Torah
12 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bible Codes/Mathematical Order | Prime factors and triangles of dots test the letter total of Genesis 1:1, and the counts beside it, for design. | Genesis | 1 linked study |
| Genesis | From the cosmos to a coffin in Egypt: the four movements, the study elements, and every Genesis featured study in one hub. | Genesis | 118 linked studies |
| The Bible and the Ancient Near East | Hammurabi, Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish and the Hittite treaty form set honestly beside Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy, what does a parallel actually prove? | Genesis | 13 linked studies |
| The Designer's Fingerprint | The contested pattern claims: ELS, gematria, Panin, examined honestly, critiques at full strength. | Genesis | 11 linked studies |
| The Tanakh | The Tanakh's order differs from the Christian Old Testament in its parts, its count of books and its last book. | Genesis | 12 linked studies |
| The Torah | Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy make up the Torah, the first of the three parts of the Hebrew Bible. | Genesis | 13 linked studies |
| Exodus: the Study Guide | Redemption's master-type: the four-movement architecture: bondage, deliverance, covenant, dwelling, from the brick-kiln to the glory that filled the tent. | Exodus | 77 linked studies |
| Leviticus: the Study Guide | How a holy God dwells among an unclean people without consuming them, the five offerings, the priesthood, and the Day of Atonement at the book's hinge. | Leviticus | 47 linked studies |
| The Hebrew Calendar | A reference to the moon's months, their names in Scripture, the added month and the count of sevens to the jubilee. | Leviticus | 20 linked studies |
| Weights, Measures, and Money in Scripture | The cubit, the ephah, the shekel and the denarius, with the ratios Scripture states and the modern values the finds give. | Leviticus | 14 linked studies |
| Numbers: the Study Guide | Two censuses bracket a generation's unbelief and a generation's hope: the bronze serpent, Balaam's Star out of Jacob, and the Aaronic Blessing's oldest words. | Numbers | 43 linked studies |
| Deuteronomy: the Study Guide | Moses' last sermon, cast as a covenant treaty, the historical prologue, the law restated, chapter 28's blessing-and-curse ledger, and the climactic choose life. | Deuteronomy | 49 linked studies |
History
13 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua: the Study Guide | Not one good promise failed: the fourfold march into the land, the name that is itself the Christ-connection, and the conquest's hardest question presented at full strength. | Joshua | 46 linked studies |
| The Historical Books | Twelve books, Joshua to Esther, carry Israel's history from the crossing of the Jordan to the rebuilt walls of Jerusalem. | Joshua | 21 linked studies |
| Judges: the Study Guide | The book's own downward spiral, charted: six judge-cycles run the same formula while the land-had-rest refrain thins and vanishes after Gideon. | Judges | 25 linked studies |
| Ruth: the Study Guide | The LORD's hesed reaching a Moabite widow, and the kinsman-redeemer who rehearses Christ. | Ruth | 21 linked studies |
| 1 Samuel: the Study Guide | The hinge of Israel's history: the last judge, the king Israel demanded, and the shepherd anointed in secret and tested before he reigns. | 1 Samuel | 24 linked studies |
| 2 Samuel: the Study Guide | The reign of David in three movements, triumph, ruin, and a chiastic appendix, centered on the covenant God swears in chapter 7 and never revokes. | 2 Samuel | 23 linked studies |
| 1 Kings: the Study Guide | Solomon's wisdom, the temple filled with glory, the kingdom torn in two, and Elijah's still small voice. | 1 Kings | 15 linked studies |
| 2 Kings: the Study Guide | The record of a word that never failed even while a kingdom did, twin ledgers of Israel and Judah's kings, until the Davidic lamp is all that's left. | 2 Kings | 29 linked studies |
| 1 Chronicles: the Study Guide | Adam to Zerubbabel in one unbroken spine, the genealogical funnel that tells the returned exiles who they still are. | 1 Chronicles | 21 linked studies |
| 2 Chronicles: the Study Guide | Solomon's glory-filled temple, the seek/forsake ledger of Judah's kings, and the closing hinge into Ezra, "let him go up." | 2 Chronicles | 24 linked studies |
| Ezra, the Study Guide | The rebuilt house and the rebuilt heart: Cyrus's decree, the temple finished, and the scribe who prepared his heart to seek the law. | Ezra | 20 linked studies |
| Nehemiah: the Study Guide | A cupbearer's burden becomes a wall in 52 days, then the Word, a signed covenant, and a watch that does not outlast his absence. | Nehemiah | 17 linked studies |
| Esther: the Study Guide | The one book where God's name never appears, and His hand is everywhere. The chiastic reversal, hinged on a sleepless night. | Esther | 20 linked studies |
Wisdom and Poetry
8 live, 2 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job: the Study Guide | God does not unseal the file on why the righteous suffer; He unveils Himself, the wager, the collapsing dialogue, the whirlwind. | Job | 18 linked studies |
| The Question of Suffering — Job 1–42 | Job never learns why he suffered: the whirlwind unveils the One who ordained it, not the reason he asked for. | Job | 17 linked studies |
| Wisdom and the Poets | This page sizes the five poetic books, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song, by their actual chapter counts and matches each one to a season of life it speaks to. | Job | 18 linked studies |
| The Psalms | Israel's prayer book: the five books, the two ways, the genres of the heart, and every road running to the King on Zion who is Christ. | Psalms | 45 linked studies |
| Proverbs: the Study Guide | Skill for living in the fear of the LORD, the six collections, the keystone that frames the book, and the genre key that keeps a proverb from being read as a promise. | Proverbs | 33 linked studies |
| Wisdom Before Christ | This page maps the wisdom stream across five stations, from Proverbs through two between-Testament study resources into the New Testament, then names what that stream shows about Christ's arrival. | Proverbs | 8 linked studies |
| Ecclesiastes: the Study Guide | Every avenue of meaning under the sun run through the sieve of death, and what does not filter through: the gift, and the fear of God. | Ecclesiastes | 14 linked studies |
| Song of Solomon: the Study Guide | The Bible's one book of pure love poetry, the six-movement garden path, its two refrains, and the church's two-thousand-year argument. | Song of Solomon | 10 linked studies |
| sirach | Planned in the queue for Proverbs. | Proverbs | In preparation |
| wisdom-of-solomon | Planned in the queue for Proverbs. | Proverbs | In preparation |
Prophets
21 live, 2 in preparation
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah, the Study Guide | The Fifth Gospel: the two-panel book, the Holy One of Israel refrain, and the Servant wounded for our transgressions. | Isaiah | 36 linked studies |
| The Major Prophets | A dated timeline positions all four prophets by the actual years each one spoke, and a Messiah ledger sets one verse from each scroll beside its New Testament citation. | Isaiah | 15 linked studies |
| Jeremiah, the Study Guide | Forty years against the fall of Jerusalem, and the deepest promise in the Old Testament, spoken while the siege ramps were rising. | Jeremiah | 32 linked studies |
| Lamentations: the Study Guide | Five dirges over a fallen city that own the judgment as just, until the book's exact center turns: mercies new every morning. | Lamentations | 19 linked studies |
| Ezekiel, the Study Guide | The glory that left, and the glory that returns, the kavod migration walked station by station, to a city renamed 'the LORD is there'. | Ezekiel | 23 linked studies |
| Daniel: the Study Guide | The Most High rules in the kingdom of men: two halves and two languages, the stone cut without hands, the Son of Man, and the seventy weeks. | Daniel | 35 linked studies |
| The Intertestamental Period | The 400 years between Malachi and Matthew, Alexander, Antiochus, the Maccabees, and Rome, setting the stage the New Testament opens on. | Daniel | 13 linked studies |
| The Maccabean Revolt | This page tracks four centuries between Malachi and Matthew through two timelines, a desecrated altar, a family's revolt, and the fast that became Hanukkah. | Daniel | 11 linked studies |
| Hosea, the Study Guide | God stakes His own covenant love on a broken human marriage, judgment and compassion zig-zagging to an unconditional healing. | Hosea | 20 linked studies |
| The Twelve | This page walks the Twelve as one scroll, showing the ancient case for reading them together and the Day of the LORD phrase that ties six of the books to one theme. | Hosea | 20 linked studies |
| Joel, the Study Guide | A locust plague becomes the LORD's object lesson for the Day that is coming, judgment and the Spirit poured out on all flesh in the same widening arc. | Joel | 21 linked studies |
| Amos, the Study Guide | The shepherd of Tekoa's rhetorical trap on Israel's golden prosperity, eight oracles that close on the audience cheering them, and the fallen tabernacle of David the Jerusalem Council would build again. | Amos | 20 linked studies |
| Obadiah, the Study Guide | The OT's shortest book carries one of its largest claims: Edom's proud fall previews the Day of the LORD on every nation, and the last word standing: the kingdom shall be the LORD's. | Obadiah | 11 linked studies |
| Jonah, the Study Guide | A prophet commissioned to preach mercy to Israel's enemy flees instead, the descent, the deliverance, the mirrored commissions, and the sign Jesus gave His generation. | Jonah | 15 linked studies |
| Micah, the Study Guide | Judah's most concrete indictment of injustice held together with its most concrete hope, a Ruler from the least of Judah's clans whose origin is 'from everlasting.' | Micah | 21 linked studies |
| Nahum, the Study Guide | The sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later, the most kinetic battle poetry in the Twelve, and a stronghold in the day of trouble. | Nahum | 15 linked studies |
| Habakkuk, the Study Guide | The prophet who put God on trial and was answered with a Person, not an explanation, the watchtower, the five woes, and the Reformation's tower text. | Habakkuk | 14 linked studies |
| Zephaniah, the Study Guide | The Day of the LORD sweeps the whole earth, narrows onto Jerusalem alone, then past the nation to one singing God, before flaring back out to every people on earth. | Zephaniah | 14 linked studies |
| Haggai, the Study Guide | Consider your ways: four dated oracles in 116 days, a stalled temple restarted, and the Davidic signet restored in Zerubbabel. | Haggai | 13 linked studies |
| Zechariah, the Study Guide | Eight night visions in one night, a high priest crowned as the BRANCH's living parable, and two burdens unveiling a King first rejected, then pierced, then reigning, the most NT-quoted of the Twelve. | Zechariah | 26 linked studies |
| Malachi, the Study Guide | The Old Testament's closing argument: six courtroom disputations answering Judah's doubt, ending in a promised messenger, a refiner's fire, and an Elijah to come. | Malachi | 23 linked studies |
| 1-maccabees | Planned in the queue for Daniel. | Daniel | In preparation |
| 2-maccabees | Planned in the queue for Daniel. | Daniel | In preparation |
Gospels
13 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew, the Study Guide | The Gospel of the King: five discourses, ten fulfillment formulas, and a Jewish gospel that ends by opening to all nations. | Matthew | 45 linked studies |
| The Gospels | Four portrait cards lay out each evangelist's audience, distinctive material, and opening move side by side, and the man-lion-ox-eagle tradition is traced back to Irenaeus and Jerome. | Matthew | 13 linked studies |
| The Jewish Day and the Watches of the Night | The Jewish day ran from evening to evening, not midnight to midnight. | Matthew | 7 linked studies |
| The Jewish Writings | Jewish tradition carries its own library alongside the Hebrew Bible: the Mishnah, two Talmuds, Midrash, the Targums, and a line of great commentators. | Matthew | 13 linked studies |
| The Sects of Second Temple Judaism | Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots: four answers to faithfulness under Rome, and where each one collided with Jesus. | Matthew | 17 linked studies |
| Why Four Gospels | One gospel 'according to' four witnesses — Matthew's King, Mark's Servant, Luke's Son of man, John's Son of God — and the honest history of how the four relate. | Matthew | 5 linked studies |
| Gospel Of Mark | The fastest Gospel: sixteen chapters earning one opening line, the Son of God, until a Roman executioner finally says it at the cross. | Mark | 26 linked studies |
| The Ending of Mark — 16:9–20 | The oldest manuscripts stop at Mark 16:8, mid-sentence, the evidence for and against the longer ending, laid out openly. | Mark | 4 linked studies |
| How We Got the Bible | Josephus's twenty-two books, the three tests of canonicity, the Muratorian Fragment, and Athanasius's 367 letter, the first list of exactly today's twenty-seven. | Luke | 20 linked studies |
| Luke the Historian, the Acts Reliability Ledger | Politarchs, the Gallio inscription, the right title for every governor, what was doubted about Acts, and what was found in the ground. | Luke | 9 linked studies |
| Luke, the Study Guide | The physician's orderly account: a Savior born for all people, a road set toward Jerusalem, and a risen Lord who opens all the Scriptures. | Luke | 31 linked studies |
| Who Decided the Canon? | This page walks the timeline of how the biblical canon actually formed, from the counted Hebrew books through Jerome's line, the Reformers, Trent, Jerusalem, and Ethiopia, and shows what the four living lists share and where they differ. | Luke | 15 linked studies |
| John, the Study Guide | The Word made flesh: John's four movements, the seven signs, the seven 'I AM' sayings, and every John featured study in one hub. | John | 36 linked studies |
Acts and the Letters
33 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acts | A proportional map sizes the book's three widening zones by their true share of the twenty-eight chapters, with six of Luke's own growth-reports pinned along the same timeline. | Acts | 9 linked studies |
| Acts, the Study Guide | What the risen Christ kept doing from the throne: the 1:8 arc from a Jerusalem upper room to the heart of Rome, paced by six refrains, the word of God grew. | Acts | 46 linked studies |
| Paul and the Poets | Three occasions, four pagan lines: Epimenides quoted twice (Mars Hill and Crete), Aratus at Athens, Menander in Corinth, and what Paul's method licenses. | Acts | 5 linked studies |
| Romans: the Study Guide | The gospel argued to the ground: the seven-movement argument, the Romans Road, justification by faith, and grace reigning to the glory of God. | Romans | 43 linked studies |
| The Pauline Epistles | This page sorts Paul's thirteen letters by the occasion that produced each one instead of their order in the Bible, tracing a missionary on the road, then a prisoner, then a mentor training successors. | Romans | 23 linked studies |
| 1 Corinthians, the Study Guide | Christ crucified for a divided church: the report Paul heard, the questions the Corinthians asked, and the resurrection nobody asked about but everything depends on. | 1 Corinthians | 31 linked studies |
| 2 Corinthians, the Study Guide | Paul's most autobiographically exposed letter: comfort carried through affliction, glory outshining Moses' veil, and power made perfect in weakness. | 2 Corinthians | 21 linked studies |
| Galatians: the Study Guide | Paul's most urgent letter, defended in three movements: his gospel from Christ not man, justification by faith not works of the law, and freedom lived by the Spirit not license. | Galatians | 33 linked studies |
| Ephesians, the Study Guide | Seated, walking, standing: the letter's own three-beat architecture, the mystery of one new man, and the Temple Warning Inscription as physical corroboration. | Ephesians | 23 linked studies |
| Philippians, the Study Guide | A letter written in chains that is about joy, the Christ-hymn's self-emptying and exaltation, and a contentment learned in whatsoever state. | Philippians | 28 linked studies |
| Colossians, the Study Guide | Christ supreme over every claim the Colossian error could make against him, the hymn as the letter's engine, driving the polemic, the ethic, and the courier who carries it out. | Colossians | 23 linked studies |
| 1 Thessalonians, the Study Guide | The model church's faith, love and hope, and a letter that closes every chapter looking for the Lord's return. | 1 Thessalonians | 15 linked studies |
| 2 Thessalonians: the Study Guide | The forged-letter crisis and the fixed sequence of the man of sin, the restrainer, and Christ's destroying appearance. | 2 Thessalonians | 16 linked studies |
| 1 Timothy, the Study Guide | Guard the deposit: Paul's charge-and-deposit letter to Timothy at Ephesus, built around the mystery-of-godliness hymn and the three faithful sayings. | 1 Timothy | 19 linked studies |
| Who Wrote the Pastorals? — 1–2 Timothy & Titus | 1–2 Timothy and Titus's contested authorship, laid out as a claim-evidence-counter ledger, the traditional and critical cases both at full strength. | 1 Timothy | 7 linked studies |
| 2 Timothy, the Study Guide | Paul's death-cell testament to Timothy: guard, endure, continue, preach, framed by who stood by him and who turned away. | 2 Timothy | 14 linked studies |
| How to Study the Bible | Observation, interpretation, application: genre-aware reading rules, word studies, cross-references, and the house hermeneutic behind every MannaFest page. | 2 Timothy | 8 linked studies |
| Titus: the Study Guide | Order, adorn, insist: qualified elders against the Cretan error, a household trained by grace between two appearings, and good works as the fruit, never the ground, of salvation. | Titus | 17 linked studies |
| Philemon, the Study Guide | The gospel's most private, costly work in one household: Paul appeals rather than commands for a runaway slave, 'put that on mine account.' | Philemon | 15 linked studies |
| The Bible and Slavery | The historical frame, what the Law actually protects, Paul's letter to a slave-owner, and the objection presented at full strength, unsoftened, no triumphalism. | Philemon | 13 linked studies |
| Hebrews: the Study Guide | Better: seven rungs of superiority, five warnings braided through them, and a High Priest who sat down. | Hebrews | 49 linked studies |
| The General Epistles | A ledger lists all eight letters with their author, audience, and the verse where each states its own charge, and two Greek words, endure and contend, are traced as the one nerve running through them. | Hebrews | 16 linked studies |
| James, the Study Guide | Nine stations where genuine faith is proven, trial to prayer, anchored to the Lord of glory (2:1) and the coming of the Lord (5:7-8). | James | 22 linked studies |
| 1 Peter: the Study Guide | A living hope through undeserved suffering: the suffering-to-glory arc that runs through every chapter. | 1 Peter | 29 linked studies |
| 2 Peter, the Study Guide | An apostle's last testament: grow in the true knowledge of Christ, know the false teachers by their judged precedents, and do not be shaken by the scoffers, the day of the Lord comes as a thief. | 2 Peter | 22 linked studies |
| How Prophecy Works | Biblical prophecy is forth-telling before it is foretelling: a message spoken for God about the present, inside which specific predictions sit. | 2 Peter | 9 linked studies |
| The Prophetic Word Made Sure | Near the end of his life, Peter grounds the gospel he preached in what he actually saw: the Transfiguration on the holy mountain. | 2 Peter | 4 linked studies |
| 1 John, the Study Guide | Three tests, not one outline: light, love, and truth recur and deepen across five chapters, written so that those who already believe may know they have eternal life. | 1 John | 20 linked studies |
| 2 John, the Study Guide | Truth and love braided into one thing until a household must decide whether to open its door to a teacher who denies Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. | 2 John | 11 linked studies |
| 3 John, the Study Guide | The NT's shortest book and sharpest character study: Gaius who walks in truth against Diotrephes who loves the preeminence, he that doeth good is of God. | 3 John | 12 linked studies |
| 1 Enoch: The Book Jude Quotes | 1 Enoch is a five-book Jewish library that Jude quotes by name and Jesus appears to draw on when he answers the Sadducees on marriage and the resurrection. | Jude | 19 linked studies |
| Jude, the Study Guide | A one-chapter emergency letter that turns from planned pleasantries into a battle-cry, contend for the faith, because the God who judged Israel, the Watchers, and Sodom will judge the wolves inside the fold too. | Jude | 16 linked studies |
| The Apocrypha | The fourteen-to-fifteen books that ride between the testaments — labeled study resources, never part of the 66. | Jude | 8 linked studies |
Revelation
2 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revelation, the Canon's Closing Scroll | This page traces five Old Testament books, Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Isaiah, and Joel, into the images and scenes of Revelation, and marks the four moments John says he was carried “in the Spirit.” It also names the four ways scholars read the book's timing and links to the full Revelation hub for deeper study. | Revelation | 17 linked studies |
| Revelation, the Study Guide | The unveiling of Jesus Christ: the book's own three-fold key, its architecture of sevens, and the garden lost in Genesis given back as a garden-city. | Revelation | 42 linked studies |
The Apocrypha
12 live
| The study | In one sentence | Book | Doors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baruch, the Scribe Who Stayed | Baruch son of Neriah wrote Jeremiah's prophecy from dictation, rewrote it after a king burned the first scroll, and received the Bible's one oracle addressed to an assistant. | Apocrypha | 2 linked studies |
| Judith | A book of the Apocrypha, the books outside the Hebrew Bible, in sixteen chapters, in which a widow of Bethulia goes out to the Assyrian camp and the town is delivered. | Apocrypha | 6 linked studies |
| Sirach beside James | This page lines up three sayings in Sirach against nearly identical sayings in James and asks what the parallel means. | Apocrypha | 5 linked studies |
| The Animal Apocalypse | 1 Enoch's Animal Apocalypse retells the whole biblical story as a dream about a farm, with Adam as a white bull, Israel as a flock of sheep, and the nations as beasts and birds. | Apocrypha | 4 linked studies |
| The Apocalypse of Weeks | 1 Enoch's Apocalypse of Weeks compresses all of history, from Adam to a new heaven, into ten periods called weeks. | Apocrypha | 4 linked studies |
| The Fear of the Lord in Ben Sira | This page reads Sirach's opening theme, the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom, beside its source in Proverbs, then follows Ben Sira's practical wisdom into daily life. | Apocrypha | 4 linked studies |
| The Potter Refused | This page lines up Wisdom 13-15 against Romans 1 and 9 to show where Paul's language echoes an older Jewish argument, then follows the two changes he makes to it. | Apocrypha | 2 linked studies |
| The Righteous One Condemned | This page sets Wisdom 2's taunt against a righteous man beside the mockery at the cross, then follows the older book through its own answer and reversal. | Apocrypha | 5 linked studies |
| The Son of Man in 1 Enoch | 1 Enoch's Parables describe a pre-existent, enthroned Son of Man worshiped by kings, a portrait already circulating in Jewish thought around the time of Jesus. | Apocrypha | 9 linked studies |
| The Watchers' Secrets | 1 Enoch names the fallen Watchers as teachers of weapons, sorcery, astrology, and cosmetics, and calls what they taught worthless mysteries, stolen rather than given. | Apocrypha | 5 linked studies |
| Wisdom Seen on Earth | Baruch 3:37 says God afterward showed himself on earth and lived among men, and two ancient readings explain that line differently. | Apocrypha | 4 linked studies |
| Wisdom, the Radiance | This page traces one rare Greek word, apaugasma, from Wisdom of Solomon's portrait of personified Wisdom to Hebrews' description of the Son. | Apocrypha | 5 linked studies |
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