Old Testament Overview

This course is designed to provide you with an overview of the Old Testament. In many college and seminary contexts, such a course would provide a general survey of “introductory issues” related to studying the Old Testament (scholarly debates about who wrote the book, where it was written, when it was written, who it was written to, why it was written, etc.). In contrast, our goal will be to help you understand the content of the Old Testament and then wrestle with how that content (God’s revelation to us) should impact our lives today. Unlike most Bible courses in the Ignitus Bible Curriculum, this course will focus on providing a big-picture look at the Old Testament. This means that we will not be looking at a particular Old Testament book verse-by-verse. Instead, we will try to (1) determine some of the primary messages that God is conveying through each Old Testament book, and (2) understand the overall message of the Old Testament.