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Overwhelmed by the thought of trying to study Scripture on your own? These courses are designed to help you learn to study the Bible more effectively and grow in your understanding of Scripture. Gain an advanced understanding of the biblical world and its cultural context.

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Learning Path Courses (32)

Biblical Hermeneutics

This course will instruct in various parameters for biblical interpretation and will show how specific methods...

Lecturer: Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., PhD

Reading the Book of Revelation

In this course, you will learn the depth, beauty, and application of this early first-century text,...

Lecturer: David Mathewson, PhD

Biblical Geography Basics

This course is designed to explore the absolutely vital relationship between what the Almighty has to...

Lecturer: John Beck, PhD

Intermediate Level

New Testament Basics: Things We Thought We Knew

This course provides an overview of the New Testament books, providing information about an accurate understanding...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Matthew-Mark: Two Presentations of Jesus

The course introduces students to the Gospels as literature, then focuses on Matthew and Mark, exploring...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Luke-John: Two Interpretations of Jesus

By adding the perspectives of Luke and John to those given by Matthew and Mark, the...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Jesus in Galilee: Popularity and Misunderstanding

This course studies the great Galilean phase of Jesus’ ministry, which is the setting for the...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Jesus in Judea: Opposition and Rejection

This course examines the Judean phase of Jesus' ministry and discovers the Jewish opposition which led...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Acts: Crucifixion, Resurrection and Proclamation

This course covers Christ's crucifixion and resurrection and examines how His disciples distributed the gospel throughout...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Galatians-1 Corinthians: Paul’s Earliest Letters

This course covers Paul's New Testament epistles to the Galatians and Thessalonians, and how he laid...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

1 and 2 Corinthians: Two Letters to a Tough Church

This course examines how the Corinthian church was planted in a moral cesspool, and how the...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Romans-Ephesians: The Letter to the Roman Church and Letters From a Roman Prison

In this course you will study Paul's letters written both to and from Rome and his...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

1 Timothy-Hebrews: Letters to Pastors and to a Church Struggling to Believe

This course combines and examines three letters of instruction to young pastors and a letter to...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

James-Jude: Letters to Everyone – General and Johannine Epistles

The course will look at Paul's epistles and how he addressed specific cities or people, while...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Intermediate Level

Revelation: The Book of Revelation – The End and the Beginning

This course examines the way history culminates in Revelation's theme of Christ's ultimate triumph over evil...

Lecturer: Craig L. Blomberg, PhD

Genocide in the Old Testament

The course explores the most violent aspects of the Old Testament from an in-depth perspective through...

Lecturer: Richard Hess, PhD

Reading the Psalms

During this course, we will examine four types of psalms, showing how to utilize varying types...

Lecturer: Knut Heim, PhD

Reading the Proverbs

The wisdom found in Proverbs dates back thousands of years. When you study the vast knowledge...

Lecturer: Hélène Dallaire, PhD

Intermediate Level

Genesis-Leviticus: God Builds a People for Himself

This course examines how God built a nation to represent Him on earth, starting with the...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Numbers-Joshua: The Tragedy of Fear and the Glory of Faith

Discover how Joshua and Deuteronomy illustrate how the people prepared for and triumphed over fear by...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Judges-1 Samuel: Israel’s Choice From God-Rule to Human-Rule

This course covers Judges, Ruth, and 1 Samuel. During Judges, Israel rebelled against God's rule, however,...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

2 Samuel-2 Kings: The Difference Leaders Make

Survey the kingdom era of Israel in both its united and divided forms. This course provides...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

1 Chronicles-Nehemiah: Grace Greater Than a Nation’s Sins

Ezra and Nehemiah describe how God restored His people after exile, according to Chronicles, through the...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Lamentations-Job: God’s Path Through Pain

This course examines these books that tackle the pain and pressure that often go along with...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Proverbs-Psalms: Singing the Sounds of Real Life

The course will explore the distilled language of Israeli poets as they sang the songs of...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Daniel-Micah: Studies of Integrity – Good Men in Bad Times

This course examines God's prophets, their messages, and the time in which they lived, when it...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Ecclesiastes-Isaiah: God Guides His People through Poets and Prophets

This course covers three Old Testament books of poetry and then introduces us to the writing...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Jeremiah-Ezekiel: Human Failure and Divine Success – A Study in Contrast

Examine the prophets whose ministry connected to Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians, the study of a...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Jonah-Habakkuk: The God of Israel and the God of the Nations

Discover how even though God chose Israel to be His covenant people, He extended His compassion...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Intermediate Level

Haggai-Malachi: No Substitute for Obedience

Explore how the prophets ministered after Jerusalem was destroyed and also during Jerusalem's reconstruction after its...

Lecturer: Douglas K. Stuart, PhD

Conquest and Settlement

Throughout Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, the people of Israel cross the Jordan River, take over and...

Lecturer: John J. Davis, ThD, DD

Post-Exilic Prophets

As recorded by Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, this course explores the relationship between God and Israel...

Lecturer: Richard O. Rigsby, PhD, ThD