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  • Individual Studying The Bible

    Old Testament Survey (3 credits)

    Instructor: David Feddes
    Website: DavidFeddes.com

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    Overview:     This ministry training course examines the historical writings of the Old Testament, focusing on the stories of God's dealings with Israel in preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ. The class also shows some applications for contemporary Christian living and preaching. (The Old Testament's detailed laws, Psalms, wisdom writings, and prophets are featured in other classes.)

    Course Outcomes:

    1. Know major events, identify significant characters, and recognize key themes in Old Testament history.
    2. Trace the progressive unfolding of God's revelation in the history of salvation leading up to Jesus.
    3. Understand and explain the relevance of Old Testament history for knowing God and following Jesus today.
    4. See how sermons based on Old Testament history can glorify God, focus on Christ, and apply to people today.
    Assignments:
    1. Read the Old Testament chapters assigned for each unit, either online or in your own Bible. 
    2. Read the online articles (or listen to audio) for each unit. 
    3. View online video lectures. For your convenience, content is available in more than one format. For each video, a corresponding transcript and slides are posted to help with study. You may save PDF files on your computer and adapt the slides to use when you teach others. (To view PDF files, your device must have Adobe Reader.)
    4. Use the discussion forum to ask questions and exchange ideas with others. 
    5. Take the online quiz for each unit. You will have 75 minutes to answer 20 multiple-choice questions for each quiz. Once a quiz has started, you must finish it, and you can't retake it. So be ready ahead of time. Quizzes cover Bible readings, other assigned readings, and video lectures for that unit. While taking the quiz, you may use your notes and refer to articles and other materials.

    Grading Scale:

    A 93-100%   A- 90-92%   B+ 87-89%   B 83-86%   B- 80-82%   C+ 77-79%   C 73-76%   C- 70-72%    D+ 67-69%   D 63-66%   D- 60-62%   F 0-59%
    Your average grade for all assignments in the class must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no course credit.

    Deadline: You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically unenrolled, and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and take the class again to receive credit.

    Course Forum: Each course forum is at the beginning of the course, right before the first-course content section, and has comments and questions from other students in the class. The forum is a great way to post a question or comment for other students who are currently enrolled in the course to see. Additionally, you can search the forum to see if anyone in the past has addressed or discussed the issue, question, or comment you were wanting to post about.

    Accessibility: Transcripts and readings are available for all videos and audios in this course.