Survey OT: Song of Songs: difficulty in interpretation; unusual metaphors; like Egyptian love song; celebration of marriage, sexual love between male and female in matrimony; postivie aspects of human love.

Survey OT: Ecclesiastes: Qoheleth; Finding true meaning and purpose in life; Facing the uncertainties of life; God at the center of one’s life; Retribution Principle Pt. IV; Experience vs. Revelation; […]

Survey OT: Proverbs: definition of proverb; OT wisdom; fear of the Lord; Retribution principle part III; human speech; human sexuality.

Survey OT: Psalms: composition; collections; categories; author’s purpose; editor’s purpose; seam psalms; principle of retribution; kingship; nature and creation.

Survey OT: Job: righteous sufferer; God’s fairness on trial; retribution principle; justice of God; wisdom of God; Mediator.

Survey OT: Poetry, Wisdom: poetry and wisdom literature in the Ancient East; biblical wisdom; literary character of Hebrew poetry; rhythm of sound; rhythm of thought; rhythm of form; the path […]

Survey OT: Esther: coincidence and soverignty of God; Purim; The People of God.

Survey OT: Ezra-Nehemiah: return to Jerusalem from Babylon; covenant renewal; Yahweh as covenant keeper; maintaining the covenant and ethical purity.

CS Survey OT: Chronicles: Worship in the Old Testament; History of the Monarchy and Judah; Repentance; Typology.

Survey OT: Kings: Survey OT: Kings: selective history; chronology of united kindom, divided kingdom; King Solomon; prophets; dynastic succession; golden calf cult.