{"id":1285,"date":"2012-03-15T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2022-09-06T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:49:33","slug":"story-of-the-old-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/story-of-the-old-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Old Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/OT_Story_ebook_cover-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1291\" title=\"The Story of the Old Testament\"\/><\/figure><p>Based on <a title=\"Get this book through my Amazon store!\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/2tim22-20\/detail\/0802421237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Paul Benware\u2019s book, <em>Survey of the Old Testament<\/em><\/a>, I taught a nine-week class on \u201cOld Testament Survey\u201d for&nbsp;<a title=\"Oak Tree Community Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oaktreechurch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oak Tree Community Church<\/a>\u2018s Learning Center. In this class I&nbsp;showed that only 11 out of the 39 books of the Old Testament actually carry the \u201cbig story\u201d forward. The rest add details, but do not really drive the story.<\/p><p>As a part of my preparation for the class, I wrote \u201cThe Story of the Old Testament.\u201d In about 20 pages, I give a summary of those 11 books plus a few charts to help put them into perspective. I also included three articles I wrote:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe Abrahamic Covenant\u201d \u2013 why God\u2019s promises to Abraham are central to understanding the Old Testament correctly<\/li><li>\u201cThe Mosaic Covenant\u201d \u2013 why God does not expect us to obey the Old Testament Law<\/li><li>\u201cIs God a Genocidal Murderer?\u201d \u2013 how we are to respond to God\u2019s command for Israel to annihilate various nations and tribes in ancient Canaan<\/li><\/ul><div><strong>Ready to get your copy?<\/strong> Just subscribe to my free blog updates. All you need to do is fill out the \u201cGet posts via email\u201d &nbsp;form on the right-side of this page. Once you do that and confirm your subscription, I will email you the download link to this free resource.<\/div><p><strong><em>Question: If you have read my e-book, what did you think? You can leave your questions and comments below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on Dr. Paul Benware\u2019s book, Survey of the Old Testament, I taught a nine-week class on \u201cOld Testament Survey\u201d for&nbsp;Oak Tree Community Church\u2018s Learning Center. In this class I&nbsp;showed that only 11 out of the 39 books of the Old Testament actually carry the \u201cbig story\u201d forward. The rest add details, but do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-studies","tag-otcc"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"widget-thumbnail":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Goepfrich","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/author\/dgoepfrich\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Based on Dr. Paul Benware\u2019s book, Survey of the Old Testament, I taught a nine-week class on \u201cOld Testament Survey\u201d for&nbsp;Oak Tree Community Church\u2018s Learning Center. 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