The featured studies

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.

3 studies, 0 as cards, 3 in the register

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

2 studies

• JJacob's LadderA fleeing deceiver lies down on a stone and meets God, a ladder set between heaven and earth that Jesus claims as Himself.
• GGomer, Bought Back — Hosea 1–3A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful woman, three children named as verdicts and reversed, and the price paid to buy her back.

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.

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• JJosephThe longest sustained Christ-pattern in the Old Testament, beloved, betrayed, descended, exalted, the giver of bread, the forgiver.
• MMelchizedek: the King-Priest of SalemThree texts a thousand years apart, and the whole case that a man from Judah is our High Priest.

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

16 studies, 8 as cards, 8 in the register

• EThe Exodus, Redemption's Master-TypePlagues, Passover, sea, and song: the deliverance from Egypt as the pattern every later rescue in Scripture is measured by.
• MMessianic ProphecyThe full catalog as a receipt ledger — the Old Testament text, the New Testament usage, and the witness, side by side, with every count rendered live from the data and every contested reading shown with both columns.
• SThe Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9:24–27Seventy sevens decreed on Daniel's people, and the five ways the church has read the count, each given at full strength.
• MThe Messianic PsalmsSix psalms previewing the life of Christ — from begotten Son (Ps 2) to crucified silence (Ps 22) to the Priest-King at God's right hand (Ps 110). Tri-fold taxonomy: Fulfilled in First Coming · Awaiting Second · Progressively Fulfilled.
• KThe Kinsman-Redeemer: Boaz and the Shadow of Christ (Ruth 2–4)Near, willing, and able: the law's threefold qualification for a redeemer, met by Boaz and fulfilled in Christ.
• SThe Scarlet ThreadOne scarlet line runs unbroken from the coats of skin to the blood of the Lamb — fifteen scenes on a single thread. The Talmud records that the Yom Kippur crimson cord ceased turning white some forty years before the Temple fell (b. Yoma 39b); what that timing means is weighed honestly on this page.
• SThe Suffering ServantIsaiah 52:13–53:12 — the single most extensive and specific messianic prophecy in the Old Testament, preserved in a scroll that predates Christ by more than a century.
• TTypes of ChristThe master typology index — 118 persons, events, institutions, and objects the Old Testament patterns toward Christ, every entry labeled by its warrant: the New Testament's own explicit claim, or the named tradition that drew it.

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.

1 study

• IIsaiah 53 and the RabbisWhich rabbis read the fourth Servant Song of the Messiah and which of Israel, quoted in their own words, with the point where the readings part.