The faithfulness of God in fulfilling covenant promises (KI)
Joshua
The conquest and apportion of the land (KI)
Joshua
The importance of obedience
Joshua
The purpose of the book is to show how God kept his covenant promises to give the land to Israel.
Joshua
Covenant and Land (Theme)
Joshua
Ban (Theme)
Joshua
Divine Warrior (Theme)
Joshua
Sovereign Involvement (Theme)
Joshua
Corporate Solidarity (Theme)
Joshua
The Cycles (KI)
Judges
God’s justice and grace (KI)
Judges
God’s sovereign provision of deliverers (KI)
Judges
Covenant failure by the people, the priests, and the tribal leadership (KI)
Judges
The role of the spirit of the lord (KI)
Judges
The purpose of the book is to show the covenant failure of the Israelites.
Judges
The Nature of charismatic leadership (Theme)
Judges
Spirit of the Lord (Theme)
Judges
Israel’s Apostacy (Theme)
Judges
God’s faithfulness and loyalty stimulated by people’s faithfulness and loyalty to one another. (KI)
Ruth
David’s faith shown to be the legacy of his ancestors. (KI)
Ruth
The light of loyalty dispersed during the apostasy of the judges period. (KI)
Ruth
The concept of kinsman redeemer introduced (KI)
Ruth
The purpose is to show that when people are faithful, God is faithful.
Ruth
Kinsman Redeemer (theme)
Ruth
Hesed (Theme)
Ruth
The institution of Kingship (KI)
1-2 Samuel
The process toward establishing covenant with David’s line. (KI)
1-2 Samuel
The importance of divine kingship (KI)
1-2 Samuel
The purpose of the book is to tell the story of the establishment of the kingship covenant with David.
1-2 Samuel
Ark of the covenant (Theme)
1-2 Samuel
Kingship (Theme)
1-2 Samuel
Davidic Covenant (theme)
1-2 Samuel
Assessment of Saul (theme)
1-2 Samuel
Assessment of David (theme)
1-2 Samuel
Kingship - Good and Evil (KI)
1-2 Kings
The prophetic voice as the royal conscience (KI)
1-2 Kings
Worship - Yahwism versus Baalism (KI)
1-2 Kings
Covenant blessings (repentance and restoration) and curses (judgement and exile). (KI)
1-2 Kings
The primary purpose is to record the covenant failure of the Hebrew united and divided monarchies.
1-2 Kings
Assessment of King Solomon (Theme)
1-2 Kings
Preclassical and classical prophesy (theme)
1-2 Kings
Dynastic Succession and Charismatic Leadership (theme)
1-2 Kings
The Golden Calf Cult (Theme)
1-2 Kings
The retelling of the past to inspire hope in the present (KI)
1-2 Chronicles
The reigns of David and Solomon idealized (KI)
1-2 Chronicles
The centrality of temple worship (KI)
1-2 Chronicles
The validation of priests and levites as community leaders (KI)
1-2 Chronicles
The purpose is to retell the story of the God history. (KI)
1-2 Chronicles
Worship in the Old Testament (Theme)
1-2 Chronicles
The Chronicler’s Vocabulary (Theme)
1-2 Chronicles
Typology (theme)
1-2 Chronicles
The physical restoration of the city of Jerusalem (KI)
Ezra-Nehemiah
Yahweh as the covenant-keeping God (KI)
Ezra-Nehemiah
Religious and social reform as the aftermath of repentance (KI)
Ezra-Nehemiah
The purpose is to show the numerous ways that God was faithfully at work in restoring the people of Israel to their land after the Babylonian exile.
Ezra-Nehemiah
Yahweh as covenant keeper. (theme)
Ezra-Nehemiah
restoration period reforms and the seeds of pharisaism.
Ezra-Nehemiah
God is at work even when he is behind the scenes (KI)
Esther
The Schemes of the wicked are doomed (KI)
Esther
God’s plan for his people cannot be thwarted (KI)
Esther
The purpose of this book is to show that God can accomplish his purposes just as easily through “coincidences” as he can through grand miracles of deliverance.
Esther
Purim (Theme)
Esther
People of God (Theme)
Esther
