Old Testament Foundations (2021)

Speaker(s): Iain Provan
Date: Fall 2021
Length: 28hrs
Product ID: RGDL5124S

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This course aims to present an overview of the background and contents of the books that make up the Old Testament, and to offer some reflection on the question of how they are best read together as part of the Christian canon of Scripture, and how they should shape both the Christian life and the Christian engagement with culture.   Lectures Include:

  • The Old Testament in Context, I: Holy Scripture and Holy LandIsrael in Geographical and Historical Context
  • The Old Testament in Context, II: Israel in the Midst of Empires
  • The Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy), I: The Worship of God
  • The Pentateuch, II: Creation, Covenant, and People of God
  • The Pentateuch, III: Biblical Ethics, Politics, and Law
  • The Former Prophets (Joshua-Kings): The Kingdom of God
  • Interlude: Testimony, Art, and History – Is Scripture Describing a Real Past?  
  • The Latter Prophets, I: The Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel)
  • The Latter Prophets II: The Minor Prophets (Hosea to Malachi)
  • The Writings, I: God’s People in “Exile” (Ruth, Chronicles, Ezra- Esther)
  • The Writings, II: Songs of Exile (Psalms, Lamentations, Song of Songs) 
  • The Writings, III: Waiting for the Eschaton (Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Daniel)

 

See All Audio by Iain Provan

Iain W. Provan has been the Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College since 1997. Born and educated in the UK, Dr. Provan holds a PhD from Cambridge, and prior to Regent his academic teaching career took him to King’s College London, the University of Wales, and the University of Edinburgh, where he was a senior lecturer in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies. Dr. Provan has written numerous essays and articles, and numerous books. The latter include commentaries on Lamentations, 1 and 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, as well as Seriously Dangerous Religion (2014), A Biblical History of Israel (2015, co-authored with Phil Long and Tremper Longman), Discovering Genesis (2016), The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture (2017), and Seeking What Is Right: The Old Testament and the Good Life (2020). Dr. Provan is an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. He and his wife, Lynette, have four children and three grandchildren. He is also a qualified Provincial B Licence soccer coach (BC) and ARA rowing coach (UK).

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