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.

13 studies, 8 as cards, 5 in the register

• 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.
• 22 Kings: the Study GuideThe 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.
• JJudges: the Study GuideThe book's own downward spiral, charted: six judge-cycles run the same formula while the land-had-rest refrain thins and vanishes after Gideon.
• 11 Samuel: the Study GuideThe hinge of Israel's history: the last judge, the king Israel demanded, and the shepherd anointed in secret and tested before he reigns.
• 22 Chronicles: the Study GuideSolomon's glory-filled temple, the seek/forsake ledger of Judah's kings, and the closing hinge into Ezra, "let him go up."
• 22 Samuel: the Study GuideThe reign of David in three movements, triumph, ruin, and a chiastic appendix, centered on the covenant God swears in chapter 7 and never revokes.
• 11 Chronicles: the Study GuideAdam to Zerubbabel in one unbroken spine, the genealogical funnel that tells the returned exiles who they still are.
• RRuth: the Study GuideThe LORD's hesed reaching a Moabite widow, and the kinsman-redeemer who rehearses Christ.

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

9 studies, 7 as cards, 2 in the register

• 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.
• 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.
• FFaith Under Fire, the Furnace and the Lions' DenDaniel 3 and Daniel 6 told as facing trials, fifty years apart, God present inside the sentence rather than instead of it.
• EElijah on Carmel — the Still Small VoiceThe contest on Carmel where fire falls and 'the LORD, he is God,' followed by collapse at Horeb and an answer in a still small voice.
• WThe Wall — the 52-Day Rebuild — Nehemiah 1–6A four-month burden, a night ride around the ruins, and a wall finished in fifty-two days despite mockery and conspiracy.
• EElisha — the Double PortionElisha asks for his master's spirit doubled at the Jordan, and performs a miracle-catalog that doubles Elijah's in scope.

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.

1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 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.

1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register