The events themselves: what happened, where the retelling has drifted from the text, and what the scene was really like.
1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register
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The featured studies
The studies in The Prophets, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
The Prophets holds 24 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 5 of the ten kinds.
- 19 studies ask what a whole book of the Bible says from end to end.
- 1 study asks what happened, and what the scene was really like.
- 2 studies ask who one person or one people was, and what part they take in the story.
- 1 study asks why Christians read the same texts differently.
- 1 study asks what one word or picture carries wherever Scripture uses it.
The studies by kind
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- Books of the Bible19 studies, 8 as cards, 11 in the register
- Stories1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register
- People and groups2 studies, 1 as cards, 1 in the register
- Debates1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register
- Symbols and words1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register
Books of the Bible
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.
19 studies, 8 as cards, 11 in the register
Isaiah, the Study GuideThe Fifth Gospel: the two-panel book, the Holy One of Israel refrain, and the Servant wounded for our transgressions.
Daniel: the Study GuideThe Most High rules in the kingdom of men: two halves and two languages, the stone cut without hands, the Son of Man, and the seventy weeks.
Jeremiah, the Study GuideForty years against the fall of Jerusalem, and the deepest promise in the Old Testament, spoken while the siege ramps were rising.
Zechariah, the Study GuideEight night visions in one night, a high priest crowned as the BRANCH's living parable, and two burdens unveiling a King first rejected, then pierced, then reigning, the most NT-quoted of the Twelve.
Ezekiel, the Study GuideThe glory that left, and the glory that returns, the kavod migration walked station by station, to a city renamed 'the LORD is there'.
Malachi, the Study GuideThe Old Testament's closing argument: six courtroom disputations answering Judah's doubt, ending in a promised messenger, a refiner's fire, and an Elijah to come.
Joel, the Study GuideA locust plague becomes the LORD's object lesson for the Day that is coming, judgment and the Spirit poured out on all flesh in the same widening arc.
Micah, the Study GuideJudah's most concrete indictment of injustice held together with its most concrete hope, a Ruler from the least of Judah's clans whose origin is 'from everlasting.'
The register: 11 more studies of this kind
- Amos, the Study GuideThe shepherd of Tekoa's rhetorical trap on Israel's golden prosperity, eight oracles that close on the audience cheering them, and the fallen tabernacle of David the Jerusalem Council would build again.
- Habakkuk, the Study GuideThe prophet who put God on trial and was answered with a Person, not an explanation, the watchtower, the five woes, and the Reformation's tower text.
- Haggai, the Study GuideConsider your ways: four dated oracles in 116 days, a stalled temple restarted, and the Davidic signet restored in Zerubbabel.
- Hosea, the Study GuideGod stakes His own covenant love on a broken human marriage, judgment and compassion zig-zagging to an unconditional healing.
- Jonah, the Study GuideA prophet commissioned to preach mercy to Israel's enemy flees instead, the descent, the deliverance, the mirrored commissions, and the sign Jesus gave His generation.
- Lamentations: the Study GuideFive dirges over a fallen city that own the judgment as just, until the book's exact center turns: mercies new every morning.
- Nahum, the Study GuideThe sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later, the most kinetic battle poetry in the Twelve, and a stronghold in the day of trouble.
- Obadiah, the Study GuideThe OT's shortest book carries one of its largest claims: Edom's proud fall previews the Day of the LORD on every nation, and the last word standing: the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
- The Major ProphetsFour long scrolls from Isaiah to Daniel — where "major" measures length, and every burden leans toward the Messiah.
- The TwelveHosea to Malachi — twelve short prophets the Hebrew canon read as one scroll, threaded by the Day of the LORD.
- Zephaniah, the Study GuideThe Day of the LORD sweeps the whole earth, narrows onto Jerusalem alone, then past the nation to one singing God, before flaring back out to every people on earth.
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.
2 studies, 1 as cards, 1 in the register
The register: 1 more studies of this kind
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
The register: 1 studies of this kind
Symbols and words
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
The register: 1 studies of this kind
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Every study cites the chapters it stands on and the words it turns on. A study is a way into the text and the lexicon.
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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.