The featured studies

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.

77 studies, 8 as cards, 69 in the register

• GGenesisFrom the cosmos to a coffin in Egypt: the four movements, the study elements, and every Genesis featured study in one hub.
• EExodus: the Study GuideRedemption's master-type: the four-movement architecture: bondage, deliverance, covenant, dwelling, from the brick-kiln to the glory that filled the tent.
• DDeuteronomy: the Study GuideMoses' 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.
• HHebrews: the Study GuideBetter: seven rungs of superiority, five warnings braided through them, and a High Priest who sat down.
• LLeviticus: the Study GuideHow 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.
• AActs, the Study GuideWhat 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.
• JJoshua: the Study GuideNot 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.
• MMatthew, the Study GuideThe Gospel of the King: five discourses, ten fulfillment formulas, and a Jewish gospel that ends by opening to all nations.

These studies take a chapter, a song or a single teaching and read it line by line. Each stays inside one passage and follows its own movement.

20 studies, 8 as cards, 12 in the register

• LThe Lord Is My Shepherd — Psalm 23Six verses walked as a road through five terrains, and the shepherd-thread that runs from Psalm 23 to the Good Shepherd of John 10.
• PThe Penitential PsalmsSeven psalms read together as one set since at least the sixth century, each walking the same road from trouble owned to confession made to pardon received.
• TThe Tongue — Death and Life in ProverbsProverbs' speech-ethics kept as a ledger: the healing tongue and the burning tongue, with James 3 as the New Testament terminus.
• DDavid's Life in the Psalms: the thirteen historical titlesThirteen psalms whose titles name an event in David's life, each set beside the chapter in Samuel that tells it, in the order he lived them.
• AThe Acrostic PsalmsNine psalms walk the Hebrew alphabet from aleph to taw, and every one but Psalm 119 has a gap, a doubling or a line standing outside the scheme.
• IThe Imprecatory PsalmsPsalms 35, 69, 109 and 137 ask God to act against an enemy. The four with their occasions, the readings the church has given them, and the apostles' own use of two of them.
• SThe Shepherd's Life — Psalm 23Psalm 23 is built out of a working trade. What a shepherd in Judah did with a rod, a staff, a fold and a water source, verse by verse.
• TThe Two Ways — Psalm 1The gate of the Psalter: a tree planted by streams of water set against chaff the wind drives away.

The events themselves: what happened, where the retelling has drifted from the text, and what the scene was really like.

73 studies, 8 as cards, 65 in the register

• WThe Wilderness GenerationNumbers' wilderness cycle read the way the New Testament reads it, a standing warning to the church, not just a record of the past.
• EThe Exile and the ReturnThree deportations, seventy years reckoned two ways, Cyrus's decree corroborated by the Cyrus Cylinder, and three returns under Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.
• CThe Creation WeekSix ordinary days: God forms three realms, then fills them, and crowns the whole 'very good.'
• BThe Binding of IsaacThe strongest type in Genesis of the Father offering the Son, the beloved son, the wood, the ram, and the mountain that looks to Calvary.
• FThe FloodA real, global Deluge: judgment and mercy running together, pivoting on five words: 'And God remembered Noah.'
• JThe Judges CycleJudges' six-stage formula run six times, with the 'land had rest' notice vanishing after Gideon.
• FThe Fall of JerichoNo siege engine, no battering ram: a city falls to a trumpet and a shout, with Rahab saved and Achan destroyed.
• TThe Tower of Babel: Genesis 11Humanity unites to make a name against heaven; God confuses the tongues and scatters the nations, the scattering Pentecost reverses.

Lives told from first mention to last, and the nations, families and parties around Israel and the church. The full roster of names stands on the people hub; these are the studies built around one life or one people.

35 studies, 1 as cards, 34 in the register

• WThe Weeping Prophet — the Confessions of JeremiahSix laments that get darker, and a book that publishes them anyway, the tears running outward to Rachel, Bethlehem, and Jesus over the same city.

The ground a story stands on: what was built there, what was found there, and what Scripture makes of the name afterwards.

32 studies, 0 as cards, 32 in the register

What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.

29 studies, 0 as cards, 29 in the register

Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.

7 studies, 1 as cards, 6 in the register

• TTwo Traditions, One SongAllegorical and natural, side by side against the same verses, two thousand years of argument, presented at full strength and attributed, not adjudicated.

A picture or a word traced across the canon, from its first mention to the place it comes to rest.

1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register