Outline Studies In The Old Testament For Bible Teachers

CONTENTS


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PREFATORY 3
I. THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD 7
II. OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY 12
III. THE BEGINNINGS OF BIBLE HISTORY 21
IV. THE WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS 26
V. INSTITUTIONS OF ISRAELITE WORSHIP 33
VI. THE LAND OF PALESTINE 41
VII. THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN 46
VIII. THE AGE OF THE HEROES 51
IX. THE RISE OF THE ISRAELITE EMPIRE 57
X. THE REIGN OF SOLOMON 63
XI. THE TEMPLE ON MOUNT MORIAH 69
XII. THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL 75
XIII. THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH 81
XIV. THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH 84
XV. THE JEWISH PROVINCE 92
XVI. THE OLD TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE 99
XVII. HOW WE GOT OUR BIBLE 104




Outline Studies in the Old Testament




FIRST STUDY

The Old Testament World


The Bible is primarily a book of history, and without some knowledge of
its historical contents no one can rightly understand its revelation of
divine truth. But in order to know the history contained in the Old
Testament we must obtain a view of the lands in which that history was
wrought. We therefore study first of all the =Old Testament World=.

I. =Location and Extent.= The history of the Old Testament was enacted
upon a field less than half the area of the United States. It extended
from the river Nile to the lands east of the Per´sian Gulf and from the
northern part of the Red Sea to the southern part of the Cas´pi-an. The
world of Old Testament history was thus 1,400 miles long from east to
west and 900 miles wide from north to south, and it aggregated 1,110,000
square miles, exclusive of large bodies of water.