Old Testament Exegesis II: The Historical Books

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

   • The Book of Joshua (video series) 4 lessons Open source Supplementary Third Millennium Ministries
   • The Book of Samuel (video series) 3 lessons Open source Supplementary Third Millennium Ministries
   • Biblical Theology and Joshua (Christ the Center) Dan Ragusa (Mid-America Reformed Seminary graduate; United Reformed Churches; studying at Westminster Theological Seminary) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • Narrative Analogies among Israel's and Judah's Kings (Christ the Center) Matthew Patton (pastor, Covenant Presbyterian Church, OPC) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • Study in Ezra 1-3 (Ezra, part 1) Rev. Murdo Alex Macleod (Free Church of Scotland) Ezra - Part 1 (Ezra 1:1-3:13). Companion parts loaded: Part 4 'Study in Ezra 3-6' (sermons/4644), Part 3 'Study in Ezra 9' (sermons/4643), Part 2 'Study in Ezra 10' (sermons/4642). Durations not shown; auto-generated transcripts on each page. Open source Doctrinal Free Church Legacy (Free Church of Scotland)
   • Libros Historicos del AT: Josue, Samuel, Reyes, Cronicas, Ester (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...

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

   • Commentary on Joshua John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. 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.
   • Annotations upon the Holy Bible, vol. 2 (1688 edition) Matthew Poole Open source 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 New Self-Interpreting Bible, vol. 2 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. 2 (Joshua to Esther) 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.