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The featured studies

Every study written for this site, sorted by the kind of thing it teaches. A study of a book reads differently from a study of a word, so each kind keeps its own shape.

Summary

The site carries 1221 featured studies, each taking one of ten kinds, and a kind is the question the study answers rather than the subject it covers. Doctrines is the largest at 372 studies and Places the smallest at 50.

  • 114 ask what a whole book of the Bible says from end to end, and 167 ask what one passage says line by line.
  • 196 ask what happened and what the scene was really like.
  • 372 ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, and 40 ask why Christians read the same texts differently.
  • 147 follow one word or picture wherever Scripture uses it.
  • 89 stand on one life or one people, and 50 on one place.

The studies by kind

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Open the web of all 1,221 featured pages and their 9,139 links

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.

114 studies, 8 as cards, 106 in the register

The register: 106 more studies of this kind

Show 76 more in this registerBack to Books of the Bible

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.

167 studies, 8 as cards, 159 in the register

The register: 159 more studies of this kind

Show 129 more in this registerBack to Passages and psalms

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

196 studies, 8 as cards, 188 in the register

The register: 188 more studies of this kind

Show 158 more in this registerBack to Stories

Lives told from first mention to last, and the nations, families and parties around Israel and the church. These are the studies built around one life or one people; every other name of the record has a row in the register of people.

89 studies, 8 as cards, 81 in the register

The register: 81 more studies of this kind

Show 51 more in this registerBack to People and groups

The ground a story stands on: what was built there, what was found there, and what Scripture makes of the name afterwards.

50 studies, 8 as cards, 42 in the register

The register: 42 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.

372 studies, 8 as cards, 364 in the register

The register: 364 more studies of this kind

Show 334 more in this registerBack to Doctrines

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.

40 studies, 8 as cards, 32 in the register

The register: 32 more studies of this kind

Show 2 more in this registerBack to Debates

A picture or a word traced across the canon, from its first mention to the place it comes to rest.

147 studies, 8 as cards, 139 in the register

The register: 139 more studies of this kind

Show 109 more in this registerBack to Symbols and words

The dispositions Scripture commands and commends, such as gratitude, each grounded in God's own character. Each value page outlines the value and opens onto studies of its texts, stories, words and practice. Each value opens on its value page where one is built, and on its subject page until then. A value with neither shows its key text and the studies the plan names for it, and its page is planned.

47 values and subjects, 8 as cards, 39 in the register

The register: 39 more values and subjects

Back to Values

The anguishes of life, such as grief, anxiety and pain, each with what Scripture says to the person in it. Each trial page sets out where the trial comes from, where Christ bore it and what the text gives a person to do, and opens onto studies of its texts, stories and words. A trial whose page is in preparation opens the subject page it will take in.

21 trials, 0 as cards, 21 in the register

The register: 21 trials

Back to Trials of life

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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.

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.