Most people open the Old Testament and see 39 disconnected books. Dr. Carol Kaminski sees one story. A Cambridge-trained Old Testament scholar and the creator of the CASKET EMPTY framework, she has spent three decades helping the church read Scripture the way it was meant to be read, as one connected account of God's plan of redemption running from creation all the way to Chronicles.

In this conversation she takes apart the assumption that Noah was chosen because he was good, traces grace as the engine driving the entire Old Testament, and lands on a discovery hiding in the Hebrew of 2 Samuel 7 that points straight to the resurrection. From the call of Abraham to the rise and fall of the kings to the exile and the return, she shows how every period of Israel's history is moving toward a single center.

In this episode you will learn:

  • Why the books of the Old Testament are not in chronological order, and how that one fact changes the way you read your Bible
  • What the CASKET acronym means and the six periods that hold the whole Old Testament together
  • Why Noah was not chosen for his righteousness, and what that says about grace
  • How the golden calf story exposes the true character of the God of the Old Testament
  • Why the singular word "seed" in God's promise to Abraham points directly to Christ
  • The Hebrew word in the Davidic covenant that the Greek translates as resurrection
  • Why Chronicles closes the Old Testament by retelling the entire story from the beginning
  • How to finally read the Old Testament as one unified narrative instead of scattered verses

Dr. Carol Kaminski is Senior Professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) and the founder of Casket Empty. Her work includes the CASKET EMPTY Old Testament Timeline, Study Guide, Bible Study, and Maps, along with From Noah to Israel, Was Noah Good?, and her commentary on 1-2 Chronicles in Zondervan's Story of God Commentary series.

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