Mobile Ed: OT200 Why Should Christians Read the Old Testament (3 hour course)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Understand the importance and relevance of the Old Testament with award-winning Old Testament scholar Dr. Tremper Longman. Study how 77% of the Bible contains the important background story to the death and resurrection of Christ. Discover how the Old Testament reveals things about God, ourselves and our world that we would not know otherwise. Longman combats the concerns that lead people to avoid studying the Old Testament and shows how it brings continuity to the creation, fall, redemption and consummation.
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and Course
Unit 1: OT Obstacles
- Reasons why people have questions about the Old Testament
- Start with addressing some of the concerns that lead people to avoid studying the OT: Origins (part 1)
- Start with addressing some of the concerns that lead people to avoid studying the OT: Origins (part 2)
- How to Understand Patriarchy, Polygamy, Slavery in the Old Testament - part 1
- How to Understand Patriarchy, Polygamy, Slavery in the Old Testament - part 2
- Sexuality
- Violence - part 1
- Violence - part 2
- Violence - part 3
Unit 2: OT Riches
- A Sampling of OT Riches - Genesis 1-3
- A Sampling of OT Riches - OT History
- A Sampling of OT Riches - Psalms
- A Sampling of OT Riches - Proverbs
- A Sampling of OT Riches - Ecclesiastes
- A Sampling of OT Riches - Song of Songs
- A Sampling of OT Riches - Prophets and Apocalyptic
- It all points to Jesus
Conclusion
- Conclusion to the course
- Title: Why Should Christians Read the Old Testament
- Instructor: Tremper Longman III
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2023
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 3
Tremper Longman III serves as Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He has written over 35 books, including commentaries on Genesis, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, Nahum, and Revelation. His books have been translated into 18 different languages. In addition, as a Hebrew scholar, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation, and has served as a consultant on other popular Bible translations, including The Message, the New Century Version, the Christian Standard Bible, and the Common Bible. He has also edited and contributed to a number of study Bibles and Bible dictionaries, most recently The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
He earned his BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and both his MPhil and PhD from Yale University. Dr. Longman and his wife, Alice, have three sons and eight grandchildren.