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Bible: How to Read the Bible, and the Life of Christ

Grade 6 · 139 pages · 36 lessons · PDF, print at home

Thirty-six weeks on reading well: what a genre is and why it changes how you read, what a covenant is and how the Bible is built on them, and then the life of Christ read slowly with those tools in hand. Weekly written responses.

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Bible: How to Read the Bible, and the Life of Christ

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Unit 1: What Kind of Book Is This9 lessons
  1. 1.A library, not a book
  2. 2.Narrative, and the question a story is answering
  3. 3.Law, and why a code is not a story
  4. 4.Poetry, and how Hebrew rhymes
  5. 5.Wisdom, and why a proverb is not a promise
  6. 6.Prophecy, which is mostly not prediction
  7. 7.Gospel, and why there are four
  8. 8.Letters, and reading somebody else's mail
  9. 9.Apocalyptic, written to people in trouble
Unit 2: Covenant9 lessons
  1. 10.What a covenant is
  2. 11.Noah: a promise to everything alive
  3. 12.Abraham: called, and the whole world in the promise
  4. 13.Abraham: the sign, and twenty-five years of waiting
  5. 14.Moses: rescued first
  6. 15.Moses: the mountain and the terms
  7. 16.Broken in six weeks, and renewed anyway
  8. 17.David: a house, not a building
  9. 18.The new covenant, promised six hundred years early
Unit 3: The Life of Christ, Part One9 lessons
  1. 19.Before the manger: how John opens
  2. 20.Born: two accounts, and what each one wants you to notice
  3. 21.Baptized, and named out loud
  4. 22.Tempted, and answering from a book
  5. 23.The sermon that got him thrown out of town
  6. 24.The people he picked
  7. 25.The Beatitudes, and who gets called blessed
  8. 26.Ye have heard, but I say
  9. 27.Signs, and what a miracle is for
Unit 4: The Life of Christ, Part Two9 lessons
  1. 28.Parables, and why he made things harder
  2. 29.Three lost things, and a father who runs
  3. 30.The turn: who he is, and where he is going
  4. 31.Who counts as my neighbor
  5. 32.Into the city, and into the temple
  6. 33.The cup, and the word he chose
  7. 34.The garden, the arrest, and the friend who denied him
  8. 35.Crucified
  9. 36.Raised, and two people who did not recognize him