Old Testament Exegesis I: The Pentateuch

1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

   • The Pentateuch (video series) 11 lessons (Introduction to the Pentateuch; The Primeval History; Father Abraham, and further lessons) Open source Supplementary Third Millennium Ministries
   • The Message of Leviticus (Christ the Center) David Graves (pastor, Trinity OPC, Franklin, Pennsylvania) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • Christ in Leviticus (Christ the Center) Douglas Clawson (Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Committee on Foreign Missions) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • The Lord Bless You and Keep You: Exploring the Heart of Numbers (Christ the Center) Michael Morales (Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • In the Beginning: Considering the Historicity of Genesis 1 and 2 (Christ the Center) Cornelis Van Dam (Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary, professor of Old Testament 1981-2011; Canadian Reformed Churches) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • The Blessings and Promises of the New Covenant in Deuteronomy 30:1-10 (Christ the Center) Will Wood (Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • Exodus 1:1-7 Introducing Exodus: These Are the Names (Proclaiming Christ) Joel Fick, with Mark A. Winder and Adam York Open source Supplementary Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...
   • Preaching Christ in the Old Testament (14 lectures) Edmund Clowney (Westminster Theological Seminary; Orthodox Presbyterian Church minister) 14 lectures (1987), starting with Redemption in Covenant Law and Covenant Judgment Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • Libros Historicos del Antiguo Testamento: Genesis, Exodo, Levitico y Numeros, Deuteronomio (video and slides) Seminario Reformado Guadalajara (instructor not named on the page) Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara Instructors are not named on the course pages (the site belongs to Dr. Larry Trotter, Florida Coast Church / Knox Theological Seminary adjunct); the Hebrew and Greek courses are by Mario Porras and Pablo Armero (MINTS), whose church standing is unconfirmed. The site also hosts PDFs of in-copyright textbooks...

2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • Commentary on Genesis, vol. 1 John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Commentary on Genesis, vol. 2 John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Harmony of the Law, vol. 1 (Exodus to Deuteronomy) John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus, expository and practical Andrew A. Bonar (Free Church of Scotland) Open source Primary text 1851. Public domain
   • Annotations upon the Holy Bible, vol. 1 (1688 edition) Matthew Poole Broken link Primary text 1688. Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.
   • The Dutch Annotations upon the Whole Bible (Statenvertaling annotations, English 1657) Theodore Haak (translator and editor); annotations commissioned by the Synod of Dort (1618) Open source Primary text 1657. Public domain
   • The New Self-Interpreting Bible, vol. 1 John Brown of Haddington Open source Primary text Public domain Secession (Associate, United Secession, United Presbyterian) divines held the Westminster Standards with the Secession declaration on the civil magistrate (voluntaryism), which differs from WCF 23 (1647) and from the Free Church establishment principle. Kept as primary-text for exegesis; the civil-magistrate...
   • The Typology of Scripture, viewed in connection with the whole series of the divine dispensations Patrick Fairbairn (Free Church of Scotland) Open source Primary text 1859. Public domain
   • Matthew Henry's Commentary, vol. 1 (Genesis to Deuteronomy) Matthew Henry Open source Supplementary Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 10-20 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.