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