Intro

Session 1: Torah

Session 2: Prophets and Writings

Review

Torah

Big idea: partnership

• Basis of partnership / meet the characters (Genesis)
• God chooses a partner / the partner chooses God (Exodus)
• God defines the partnership (Leviticus)
• God shapes his partner (Numbers)
• God asks his partner to remember (Deuteronomy)

History

Big idea: Redemption cycle; God's patience

• God places His people in the middle of the action for mission (Joshua)
• God’s people struggle to walk the path and trust the story (Judges & Ruth)
• God’s people struggle with identity and obedience (Samuel/Kings)
• God’s people struggle with empire and becoming the anti-story (Chronicles)

Wisdom

Big idea: Tools

If we are going to survive the cycle, we are going to need...

• Art and song for worship and expression (Psalms)
• Nuggets of conventional wisdom (Proverbs)
• Purpose and a reason to get up every morning (Ecclesiastes)
• Relationships and intimacy with others (Song of Songs)

Prophets

Big idea: Warnings, woes, and hope

• God sends warning in Pre-Assyrian/Pre-Babylonian prophets (Amos, Hosea, Micah, 1 Isaiah, Zephaniah, 2 Isaiah)
• God pronounces woe and judgment (Jonah, Nahum, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Habakkuk, Obadiah, Joel)
• God gives hope and encouragement to an exiled people (Ezekiel, Daniel, Job, 3 Isaiah)

Remnant

Big idea: Returning, yearning, learning

• God’s people return to rebuild and restore what once was (4 Isaiah, Ezra/Nehemiah)
• God’s people yearn for what used to be (Haggai, Zechariah)
• God’s people learn that this new world demands a new approach (Malachi, Esther)

The Silent Years

We run out of Biblical text but there's centuries of histories between the ending of the OT and Jesus coming onto the scene