This book encourages users to read the Bible and primary sources closely and carefully, and offers background sketches about topics not explained in the Bible. It points to specific versus and chapters, asking carefully constructed questions that prompt readers to think creatively and figure out their
own
answers. The book also shares with learners the issues that biblical scholars study, and more importantly, how biblical scholars create arguments about those issues.
An emphasis on biblical literacy provides an understanding of major themes in the Bible, an introduction to major biblical characters, and knowledge of Biblical scholarship. The book also contains a variety of scholarly techniques for analyzing biblical materials.
For church-based adult Bible-study classes, and for anyone who want to do more than
study
the Bible.