Event Title: LPL: Old Testament
25-Mar-2023 to 26-Mar-2023 Past Event
Venue: Wesley Methodist Church, Kampar

Old Testament

Outline of LPL Module

The Intensive Study Weekend Module provides:

  • A survey and introduction to the 39 books in the Old Testament.
  • Understanding the context of the Old Testament, i.e. its historical, cultural and socio-religious background.

Resources:

  1. Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth.
    (Compulsory pre-reading for the course, except for NT Chapters 3,4,6,7,8,13)
  2. J. Drane, Introducing the Old Testament (Oxford: Lynx, 1987).
  3. W. Dumbrell, The Faith of Israel (London: Apollos, 1989).
  4. Tremper Longman III and Raymond B. Dillard, Understanding the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006, 2nd ed).
  5. William Sanford Lasor, David Allan Hubbard, Frederic William Bush, Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament 2nd Edition.
  6. Bruce K. Waltke and Charles Yu, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach.

 

Saturday (25th March)

Sunday (26th March)

9.30am – 11.30am

Session 1:  An Introduction to Understanding the Old Testament and its world.

Session 5:  Historical Books

11.30am – 11.45am

Tea-break

Tea-break

11.45am – 1.15pm

Session 2:  Torah (Pentateuch)

Session 6:  Wisdom Books, Psalms and Writings

1.15pm – 2.00pm

Lunch Break

 

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Session 3:  Prophetic Books (Former Prophets)

 

3.30pm – 4.00pm

Tea-break

 

4.00 p.m. – 6.00pm

Session 4:  Prophetic Books (Latter Prophets)

 

Additional Resources:

  1. Fredrick Carlson Holmgren and Walter Brueggemann, The Old Testament and the Significance of Jesus: Embracing Change -Maintaining Christian Identity
  2. Gordon Wenham, The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms
  3. David Noel Friedman, The Unity of the Hebrew Bible (The Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture Series)

Venue: Wesley Methodist Church, Kampar (IN-PERSON ONLY)
Register BEFORE 11th March 2023

2023 OT - Assignments & Citations

Registration

 

25-26 Mar 2023
Wesley Methodist Church, Kampar 
Bishop Joshua Khong

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