The Story of Israel’s Ancestors Annual Bible Study: Living toward a Promise Study Guide

by Mark E. Biddle

Publisher:

Smyth & Helwys

, 2018

Overview

The Story of Israel’s Ancestors: Living toward a Promise is a four-session Bible study for individuals and groups. Family stories are important in helping us know who we are. They affirm core values, honor family strengths, and reflect family pain; they help families and individual family members locate themselves in the world. They tell us where we came from and remind us of where we hope to go.

Genesis 12–36 contains a cycle of stories about the first three generations of Israel’s ancestors. They record not just the beginnings of a single family but the beginnings of whole nations, particularly Israel. For more than two thousand years, Jews, Christians, and Muslims all over the world have looked to Abraham’s example. In times of distress, they have taken comfort in God’s assurances to Hagar and Ishmael that God would not abandon them in the world. And, when finding themselves in a moment of struggle with their faith and their God, they have recalled Jacob’s contest with the mysterious figure on the banks of the Jabbok River.

This Study Guide for the Smyth & Helwys Annual Bible Study on the ancestral narratives serves three purposes: to educate the learner on major issues of appropriate interpretation, to offer an overview of theological themes, and to build the learner’s Bible study skills by reviewing significant interpretations.

Product Details

• Title: The Story of Israel’s Ancestors: Living toward a Promise (Study Guide)
• Author: Mark E. Biddle
• Series: Annual Bible Study
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 81
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis 12-36 › Study and teaching
• ISBNs: 9781641735476, 1641735473
• Resource ID: LLS:ABSANCESTORSG
• Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-07T16:08:52Z

About Mark E. Biddle

Professor Mark E. Biddle is author of several books including Missing the Mark: Sin and Its Consequences in Biblical Theology (Abingdon, 2005) and Deuteronomy in the Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary Series, as well as the Old Testament Area Editor for that series. He has written numerous articles and more than 90 book reviews. Dr. Biddle is on the Editorial Board of Review and Expositor and Interpretation and is the general editor of the forthcoming publication Reading the Old Testament (Smyth & Helwys). He has lectured throughout the U.S. and at the Polish Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served as pastor and interim pastor in Indiana, Germany, Switzerland and Tennessee.