Biblical Literature Encyclopaedia Britannica article giving an overview of the Old and New Testaments

Torah Class    Old Testament Bible Study for a New Testament Understanding

Torah is the Hebrew word for the first 5 books of the Bible and it is the foundation of the Old Testament just as the Old Testament is the foundation of the New. The Old Testament (Tanach) is the Holy Scripture that Jesus (Yeshua, in Hebrew) taught from, and His Disciples referred to, since there was no New Testament until well after the time of the Apostles that succeeded Him. The Old and New Testaments are inseparable and only when used together do we have a complete, unified, divinely-inspired Bible. Torah Class cross-references the Torah and Old Testament passages with New Testament passages to reveal their seamless continuity.

Concise Old Testament Survey A study by J. Hampton Keathley III, in which he presents Christ as the hope and underlying theme of all the books of the Bible.

Text of the Old Testament Samuel Macauley Jackson Ed. This article, published nearly a century ago, does not reflect the general confirmation given to the traditional masoretic text by the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947.

Speaking the Language of Canaan: The Old testament and the Israelite Perception of the Physical World Dennis Bratcher  The heart of the topic of this paper. Do we automatically assume that because we understand the words of Scripture (after they have been translated into English) we also understand the meaning? Is the language and world view presented in the Bible God's language and world view, written by God himself, and therefore an absolute truth? If so, does that mean that all of Scripture must be read absolutely literally? Or should we ask what the frame of reference and world view from which the biblical writers spoke might have been? How do we decide when the biblical writers are using symbol and metaphor? Do the writers of scripture use language symbols and cultural metaphors that are immediately translatable into our world view? Or is our modern perception of the world so different that the ancient stories are totally untranslatable and therefore irrelevant to us?

Sacred Words? or Words about the Sacred? A Basic Introduction to the Issues of Text Criticism

Chronology of the Old Testament    A collection of various chronologies of the Old Testament and associated topics.

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`This Song': Conspicuous Poetry in Hebrew Prose James W. Watts points out that the Hebrew Bible contains many passages in which prose narrative surrounds conspicuous poetry.  The interpretive problem then becomes, not whether this is verse, but why poetry appears precisely here and explores what poetic expression accomplishes that Hebrew prose narrative cannot or will not.

Bible History - Old Testament by Alfred Edersheim Electronic edition of a 1890 edition. Includes all seven volumes.

Bible Maps provided by Daily Bible Study Online

Genealogy of Principal Figures in the Bible  Trace family trees or search for specific individuals.

The Hebrews - a learning module from Washington State University.

History of Bo-Peep, The: An Agricultural Worker's Tragedy in Contemporary Literary Perspective David JA Clines  looks at how perspective can effect interpretation.

Introduction to the Old Testament of the New English Bible Sir Godfrey Driver

Lands of the Bible J.W. McGarvey explores the geography and topography of Palestine

Old Testament History Dennis R. Bratcher offers a cultural and historical overview.

Old Testament Life and Literature An excerpt from Gerald A. Larue book presenting a different perspective.

Old Testament Prophecies  Nearly one third of the Bible has something to do with prophecy and many of the key prophecies are listed here.

On-Line Old Testament Text Book A text prepared by the Division of Student Ministry of the Baptist General Convention of Texas

Knowing Jesus through the Old Testament Ken Collins explores the messianic content of the Old Testament.

Social Matrix and Canonical Shape Norman K Gotwald.  "Social matrix" and "canonical shape" suggest the relationship between social scientific criticism and canonical criticism in Old Testament studies. This essay offers a critique of certain inadequacies and dangers in the formulations of both types of critics.

The Israelite Calendar

The Evidence for an Autumnul New Year in Pre-Exilic Israel David J.A. Clines

Early Israel ­ a Look at Theories of Origin, Family Life, Domestic Cult and Village Religion    Bente Groth and Lynn C. Feinberg  Scholars and archaeologists have produced new theories about the origin and background of the ancient Israelite nation. The Bible version of history is no longer taken at face value. Then who were the people who in time conceived of themselves as belonging one people?

The Mediterranean concepts of honour and shame as seen in the depiction of the biblical women Renata Rabichev utilises cultural anthropology  in an attempt to illuminate the everyday existence of biblical women and clarify the codes under which they lived.

Yahweh and the God of Christian Theology  David JA Clines  feels that Old Testament theologians often find themselves in a defensive or apologetic position when speaking of the God of the Old Testament and asks if its image of God is not naïve, and unsophisticated, even crude and degrading? The God of the Old Testament can be a somewhat uncomfortable deity, but Clines argues that it is precisely where Christian theology believes it has progressed beyond Yahweh that it has obscured the reality of the biblical God. Clines offers a good-natured polemic against some aspects of the God of Christian theology in favour of the confessional assertion by which Israel lived: Yahweh, he is the God!

Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture  David JA Clines  argues that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure and feels that there has never been a great revelation of the Word of God unless He has first prepared the way by the rise and prosperity of languages and letters, as though they were John the Baptists.

What Remains of the Old Testament? It’s text and language in a postmodern age  David JA Clines  looks at textual variation and double transmission in the Hebrew Bible on which the Old Testament is based. He examines the text and language of the Hebrew Bible in an attempt to assess it from a postmodern perspective.

What Remains of the Old Testament?, Appendix A (Textual Variants between 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18)    David JA Clines offers an examination of the textual variants.

What Remains of the Old Testament?, Appendix C (Emendations in Job29)   David JA Clines