A Brief Bible History
A BRIEF BIBLE HISTORY
A SURVEY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
JAMES OSCAR BOYD, Ph.D., D.D.
AND
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN, D.D.
PHILADELPHIA
THE WESTMINSTER PRESS
1922
Introduction
This book surveys the history of God's redeeming grace. It reviews Old Testament history, disclosing the stream of God's redeeming purposes flowing down through the older times. It reviews New Testament history, disclosing the broadening and deepening of that purpose for us men and for mankind in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and his Church.
The chapters included in this book appear also as a part of Teaching the Teacher, a First Book in Teacher Training, and are issued in this form to supply the demand for a brief Bible history, for popular reading.
Harold McA. Robinson.
Contents
Section I
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES
| Lesson | Page | |
| I. | Before Abraham | 7 |
| II. | The Patriarchs | 10 |
| III. | Egyptian Bondage and Deliverance | 13 |
| IV. | Moses as Leader and Lawgiver | 16 |
| V. | The Conquest and Settlement of Canaan | 19 |
| VI. | The Period of the Judges | 22 |
| VII. | Samuel and Saul: Prophecy and Monarchy | 25 |
| VIII. | David and Solomon; Psalms and Wisdom | 28 |
| IX. | The Kingdom of Israel | 31 |
| X. | The Kingdom of Judah, to Hezekiah | 34 |
| XI. | Judah, from Hezekiah to the Exile | 37 |
| XII. | The Exile and the Restoration | 40 |
| XIII. | The Jewish State Under Persia | 43 |
| XIV. | Israel's Religious Life | 46 |
| XV. | "The Coming One" | 49 |
Section II
THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES
| I. | The Preparation | 55 |
| II. | The Coming of the Lord | 58 |
| III. | The Baptism | 61 |
| IV. | The Early Judean Ministry | 64 |
| V. | The Beginning of the Galilæan Ministry | 67 |
| VI. | The Period of Popularity | 70 |
| VII. | The Turning Point | 73 |
| VIII. | Jesus as Messiah | 76 |
| IX. | The Prediction of the Cross | 79 |
| X. | The Last Journeys | 83 |
| XI. | Teaching in the Temple | 86 |
| XII. | The Crucifixion | 89 |
| XIII. | The Resurrection | 93 |
| XIV. | The Beginnings of the Christian Church | 96 |
| XV. | The First Persecution | 99 |
| XVI. | The Conversion of Paul | 102 |
| XVII. | The Gospel Given to the Gentiles | 105 |
| XVIII. | The First Missionary Journey and the Apostolic Council | 109 |
| XIX. | The Second Missionary Journey | 112 |
| XX. | The Third Missionary Journey. The Epistle to the Galatians | 115 |
| XXI. | The Third Missionary Journey. The Epistles to the Corinthians and to the Romans | 118 |
| XXII. | The First Imprisonment of Paul | 122 |
| XXIII. | The Close of the Apostolic Age | 125 |
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