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.

2 studies, 1 as cards, 1 in the register

• HThe Hall of FaithHebrews 11 walks the whole Old Testament as one procession — witness by witness, each name a deed, all of them running toward Jesus.

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.

33 studies, 8 as cards, 25 in the register

• TThe Twelve TribesThe promise narrows to one wrestling man, then opens into twelve tribes whose names are cut into the gates of heaven.
• GThe Genealogy of Jesus: Matthew's 3×14Fourteen, fourteen, fourteen: Matthew's stated design, the four women written into the royal line, and the Jeconiah hinge Luke's genealogy resolves.
• SSarah: Mother of NationsThe wife who laughed at the promise, was twice passed off as a sister, and is the only woman whose age at death Scripture records.
• EEve: The Mother of All LivingThe first woman, the first promise of a seed that would bruise the serpent, and the first funeral, read forward from Genesis 3 rather than backward from the Fall.
• RRachel and LeahTwo sisters married to one man, the tribes that came from each, and the weeping mother Jeremiah and Matthew both call by Rachel's name.
• TThe Table of NationsSeventy nations descend from three sons of Noah — a genealogy that is really a map of the whole post-Flood world, and the doorway that narrows to one chosen line.
• AAdam to NoahTen generations, sixteen centuries, and one man who did not die — the register of Genesis 5, read honestly.
• HHannah: 1 Samuel 1:1–2:21A barren woman's vow at Shiloh, the prayer Eli mistook for drink, and the song Mary later takes up almost line for line.

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

34 studies, 8 as cards, 26 in the register

• PPassoverThe night a lamb's blood turned judgment aside — and the Lamb it was always drawing toward.
• AThe Abrahamic CovenantGod binds Himself by oath to Abraham, land, seed, and blessing to all nations, sealed in a faith counted for righteousness.
• DThe Davidic Covenant — 2 Samuel 7David wants to build God a house; God promises to build David one instead, a throne established for ever, quoted directly of Jesus in Luke, Acts, and Hebrews.
• GThe Golden Calf: Covenant Made, Broken, RemadeApostasy at the foot of the mountain, the tablets shattered, Moses' four appeals in the breach, and the Name proclaimed in 34:6–7.
• HThe Hebrew FeastsSeven appointed times on one Hebrew year — a spring cluster the site reads as fulfilled, a fall cluster it reads as awaited.
• NThe New Covenant — Jeremiah 31:31–34Jeremiah’s four promises over a burning Jerusalem, quoted at length in Hebrews.
• CThe CovenantsSix covenants in succession, cumulative rather than replacing. Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, New. Each narrowing the line of promise while widening the scope of fulfillment.
• PPentecostThe fiftieth day, read twice — the Law given in fire at Sinai, the Spirit given in fire in Jerusalem.

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.

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• CCovenant Theology and DispensationalismTwo systems read the same sixty-six books and draw two different maps of history, seven test passages read both ways, both at full strength.