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Intro to Bib Lit
Course home page
Why BibLit?
Memory passages
Bible reading assignments
Weekly reports
Sample answers
Grading criteria
Canaan's strategic location
Bible in 50 words
15 key Bible chapters
Old Testament book order
Reversing Biblical
illiteracy
Famous sayings
How to study the
Bible
Text of 10 Commandments
Questions answered by OT
Bible story line
Humor
Trivia
An ax and two 38s
Bible bloopers
Internet links
Exam study guides
Want more out of life?
10/40 Window
Searching for God's will?
An African martyr's statement on commitment
Mission trip fund raising
10 ways to ruin a short-term mission trip
Youth in Mission
Nazarene Missions International resource pages
Linking to me
* These New Testament books were written to individuals.How the Bible is laid out with the number of chapters in each Bible "book" or writing
Old Testament
_______________________ GENESIS 50 | EXODUS 40 (these | Law, or LEVITICUS 27 are also | Pentateuch, or NUMBERS 36 historical) | Five Books of Moses DEUTERONOMY 34 ___________________| (5 books) ________________________ JOSHUA 24 | JUDGES 21 | RUTH 4 | 1 SAMUEL 31 | 2 SAMUEL 24 | 1 KINGS 22 | History 2 KINGS 25 | (12 books) 1 CHRONICLES 29 | 2 CHRONICLES 36 | EZRA 10 | NEHEMIAH 13 | ESTHER 10 ________________________| ___________________________ JOB 42 | PSALMS 150 | PROVERBS 31 | Poetry ECCLESIASTES 12 | (5 books) SONG OF SONGS 8 __________________| _________ _______ ISAIAH 66 | | JEREMIAH 52 | Major | LAMENTATIONS 5 | Prophets | EZEKIEL 48 | (5 books) | DANIEL 12 _________| | | __________ | HOSEA 14 | | JOEL 3 | | Prophecy AMOS 9 | | (17 books) OBADIAH 1 | | JONAH 4 | Minor | MICAH 7 | Prophets | NAHUM 3 | (12 books) | HABAKKUK 3 | | ZEPHANIAH 3 | | HAGGAI 2 | | ZECHARIAH 14 | | MALACHI 4 _________| _______|
New Testament___ ___________ _____________ MATTHEW 28 | | | MARK 16 | Synoptic | Gospels, or | LUKE* 24 _____| Gospels | Biography | | of Christ | History JOHN 21 ____________________| | (5 books) | ACTS* 28 (early church history) _____________| _____________________ __________ ROMANS 16 | | 1 CORINTHIANS 16 | | 2 CORINTHIANS 13 | | GALATIANS 6 | | ______ | | EPHESIANS 6 | | | PHILIPPIANS 4 | Prison | | COLOSSIANS 4 _____| | Pauline | | letters | 1 THESSALONIANS 5 | (13 books) | 2 THESSALONIANS 3 | | ____ | | 1 TIMOTHY* 6 | | | Letters, or 2 TIMOTHY* 4 | Pastoral | | "Epistles" TITUS* 3 ________| | | (21 books) | | PHILEMON* 1 (also prison) _____| | | HEBREWS 13 (also general, perhaps Pauline) | _______________________ | JAMES 5 | | 1 PETER 5 | | 2 PETER 3 | General | 1 JOHN 5 | letters | 2 JOHN* 1 | (7 books) | 3 JOHN* 1 | | JUDE 1 ________________________| __________| _______________________________ REVELATION 22 _______________________________| Prophecy (1 book)
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