Studies in Torah: Biblical Frameworks for the Jewish Narrative: Recent Episodes
The Ark
This seven-week class will seek to explore the Torah’s (Genesis - Deuteronomy) instruction and framework for understanding the unfolding Jewish narrative of the Bible. Special attention will be given to Genesis 1-11 as the context leading to God’s covenants with Abraham and the Jewish people as the way He will bring about redemption to all the nations of the earth.
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Session 4 - This session is part 2 of Creation to Restoration.
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Session 3 - This session explores themes from Creation to Restoration.
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Session 2 - This session explores Genesis 1-2 - God, the creation of the heavens, the earth, and all their hosts.
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Session 1 - This session explores the texts that make up the Hebrew Bible, as well as surveys the books of the Tanakh.
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Q&A to Session 4. Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 4B of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 4A of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Q&A to Session 3. Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 3B of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 3A of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Q&A to Session 2. Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 2B of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 2A of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Q&A to Session 1. Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 1B of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
Session 1A of Israel, Islam, and the End of the Age Seminar by John Harrigan. For more resources visit: https://www.thearknetwork.org/israel-islam-end-of-the-age-seminar/
In this final follow-up episode, we discuss:
- The covenant with Israel in Deuteronomy and its prominence through Israel's history
- The issue of future fulfillments of the covenants
- How the narrative progresses up to the close of the Hebrew Bible
- A recap of major themes and conclusions for the class
This final class session gives an overview of the primary covenants in the scriptures and surveys God's covenant with Israel through the Hebrew Bible.
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In this follow-up to session six, we talk about:
- The covenant with Israel and the Ten Commandments
- The Song of Moses (Dt. 32) as a witness and pattern for God's leadership of Israel in history and for the future
- Echoes of the Song of Moses throughout the Hebrew Bible
- The worldwide witness of God's deliverance and restoration of Israel
This sixth session looks at the covenant made with Israel at Sinai, its reiteration in the book of Deuteronomy, and its implications for the future through the Song of Moses (Dt. 32).
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In this follow-up to session five, we discuss:
- Ancient ethnicity and examples of how gods, land, and customs connect
- Different types of biblical covenants
- The promised land inheritance of the Abrahamic covenant and the future
- Circumcision as the sign of the covenant
- God's covenant with Abraham as the mediator of blessing and a litmus test for the nations
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This fifth session explores the subjects of ethnicity and the covenant made with Abraham.
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In this follow-up podcast to session four, we talk about:
- The sons of God and divine council
- The translations and textual backgrounds to Deuteronomy 32:8
- The allotment of the nations to the sons of God
- The election of Abraham
This fourth session gives a review of the rebellions as well as the judgment of God in Genesis 1-11. This session also begins to examine the scattering of the Table of Nations and the election of Abraham.
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In this follow-up podcast conversation from session three we talk about:
- A mechanism for the Flood in Genesis
- The function of the Flood as instruction regarding eschatological judgment in the Bible
- The deed of Ham in light of sustaining human life after the Flood
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This third session looks at
- The Flood (Genesis 6:5 - 8)
- The Covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:1-17)
- The Sons of Noah and the Curse of Canaan (9:18-29)
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This follow-up podcast discusses some of the themes covered in the second class by looking at divine and human transgression through Genesis 3, 6, and 11:
- The serpent in the garden
- The curse as consequence for disobedience and our response in this age
- The sons of God rebellion in Genesis 6, the Nephilim, and traditions about demonic origin
Session 2: An overview of both divine and human transgression of boundaries in Genesis 3, 6, and 11.
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Our first podcast conversation around themes from the first session in the class:
- Why does Cosmology matter?
- Genesis 1 in the context of the Ancient Near East
- The gods, YHWH's council, and Monotheism
- What does it mean for man to be made in God's image?