Lift up your heads, O gates,
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
That the King of Glory may come in !
Lift up your heads, O gates,
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
That the King of Glory may come in !
We started this Web site to promote in-depth study of the Bible and theology. If you would like to increase your knowledge of the Bible, here's a place to start: learn something of the background and content of each book of the Bible. This page is designed for that purpose and can be thought of as an abbreviated version of a Bible survey course you might take in college. It will take some time to finish this project. Generally speaking, the Old Testament prophets are among the least known books of the Bible, but personally speaking, I find them the most exciting part of the Bible. For both of these reasons, therefore, we begin with them.
While both the Jewish Bible and the Christian Old Testament are comprised of the same books, they differ in the order and organization of those books. The Jewish order goes back at least to the beginning of the Christian era, because Jesus summarized the Old Testament Scriptures as "Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms" (Luke 24:44).The present Jewish (Hebrew) Bible is called the Masoretic Text (MT). The Masoretes were Jewish scholars who labored on preserving the Hebrew Scriptures between A.D. 500 and 950. Editions of the MT since the Bomberg edition of 1517 have the 39 books arranged in three major divisions, reflecting the organization during the time of Jesus.
However, since most readers of this Web site are more familiar with the Christian order and organization, we will use that scheme here. In this scheme, the historical and prophetical books are organized around the Babylonian captivity. Books for which we have already completed an introduction are links that you can click.
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