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The featured studies
The studies in The Symbolism of Scripture, What God Made, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
The Symbolism of Scripture, What God Made holds 24 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in one kind.
- 24 studies ask what one word or picture carries wherever Scripture uses it.
The studies by kind
Symbols and words
A picture or a word traced across the canon, from its first mention to the place it comes to rest.
24 studies, 3 as cards, 21 in the register
FireThe bush that burns and is not consumed, the pillar, the altar, the tongues at Pentecost, and the lake at the end: what fire does in Scripture is refine, judge and reveal.
The SeedOne word running from Genesis 3:15 to Galatians 3:16, through the sowing parables, and why Paul rests an argument on its being singular.
WaterThe flood, the rock at Horeb, the well at noon, the pool at Siloam, and the river from the throne: what washing, thirst and drowning mean across the canon.
The register: 21 more studies of this kind
- Bread
- Darkness
- Light
- Locusts in Scripture
- The Covenant of Salt
- The Dove
- The Face
- The Garden
- The Harvest
- The Heavens
- The Lion
- The Pillar of Cloud and Fire
- The Rainbow
- The Sea
- The Serpent
- The Sheep and the Flock
- The Sun
- The Tree
- The Tree of Life
- The Vine & the VineyardIn Scripture the vine is Israel under God's cultivation, and it is an image about one thing only: fruit.
- Wind and Breath
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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.