Understanding the Old Testament
DVD - 2020
The Old Testament is one of the foundational documents of Western civilization. In this course, viewers will study a selection of the major books of the Old Testament, probing their meaning and relevance. Among these, viewers will explore the prophets, the wisdom literature, and the apocalyptic literature, finding their deeper historical and religious import, as well as their sublime literary treasures.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Educational films
Instructional films
Religious films
Nonfiction films
Lectures
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantily, VA :
The Great Courses
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Religion ; Subtopic: Biblical studies"--Cover.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Title from disc labels.
"Course no. 6013"--Disc labels.
Issued with a booklet that includes course scope, lecture guides, multiple choice quizzes and bibliography (pages 150-159) - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (lv, 161 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD.
- ISBN
- 9781629978048
- Disc 1. The Old Testament as literature
- The Genesis creation story
- What God intended for Adam and Eve
- When things go wrong in the Garden of Eden
- Abraham, the father of three faiths
- Moses and the Exodus
- Disc 2. The ten commandments
- The covenant code in Exodus
- Leviticus at a crossroads
- Deuteronomy to Kings
- The Book of Judges
- The Book of Samuel
- Disc 3. The Book of Kings
- Biblical short stories: Ruth and Esther
- Amos, prophet of justice
- The prophet Isaiah in three movements
- Jeremiah, persecuted prophet
- Daniel and apocalyptic literature
- Disc 4. How scholars study Psalms
- The music of the Psalms
- Proverbs in the Bible: wisdom literature
- Job's suffering and understanding
- Ecclesiastes and the "vanity of vanities"
- Slaying the dragons of the Old Testament.