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The featured studies
The studies in People & Family Lines, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
People & Family Lines holds 24 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 3 of the ten kinds.
- 1 study asks what one passage says, line by line.
- 12 studies ask who one person or one people was, and what part they take in the story.
- 11 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
The studies by kind
Passages and psalms
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.
1 study
People and groups
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.
12 studies, 6 as cards, 6 in the register
The Twelve TribesThe promise narrows to one wrestling man, then opens into twelve tribes whose names are cut into the gates of heaven.
The 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.
The 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.
Adam to NoahTen generations, sixteen centuries, and one man who did not die — the register of Genesis 5, read honestly.
The Genealogies of ChristTwo genealogies, two different fathers for Joseph, two different sons of David. Behind the apparent contradiction is some of the most elegant theological architecture in scripture.
The Twelve, the four lists set against each otherThe four New Testament lists set side by side, the honest name variants, and a compact profile for each of the Twelve.
The register: 6 more studies of this kind
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
11 studies, 1 as cards, 10 in the register
The register: 10 more studies of this kind
- Abraham's Intercession for Sodom
- God and the Nations, from Abraham to the New Jerusalem
- Providence
- The Birthright
- The Call of Abraham
- The Image of God
- The Seventy Who Went Down and the Seventy-Five of Acts
- The Silver Cup and Joseph's Claim to Divine
- The Two Lines of Cain and Seth
- The Younger Set Before the Elder
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People and groups1
The text itself3
The roster is the site’s own build manifest, so no study can be missing from it. A study leads its kind when it carries a line of its own and more of the other studies link to it; a register row with no line of its own borrows the first sentence of the study’s own summary. The pictures are public domain: engravings by Gustave Doré from Doré’s English Bible(1866), and paintings held at Wikimedia Commons. Each is named in full on the study’s own page.