Old Testament Survey Track

Created by Christian University GlobalNet

About this Learning Track

At Christian University GlobalNet (CUGN) we offer students a big picture overview of the Old and New Testaments. Whether you are a pastor, ministry leader, or simply someone seeking to deepen your understanding of the Christian faith, these Old and New Testament courses will deepen your understanding of God’s relationship with Israel, Jesus’ ministry, and give you an appreciation of God’s great love and grace for all of us.

Old Testament Survey courses examine the creation of Israel as a nation and God’s process of building that nation to represent Him on earth. Dr. Douglas Stuart lays the foundation for understanding the struggles and triumphs of the relationship between God and Israel. He also provides additional information to help students grasp the full context of the Scriptures in the historical time period they were written.

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Courses

Course 1 :
Genesis-Leviticus: God Builds a People for Himself

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About this Course

From the creation of all things to the creation of Israel as a nation at Sinai, this course studies God’s process of building a nation to represent Him on earth. It is the foundation for understanding the struggles and triumphs of the relationship between God and Israel that is recorded in the rest of the Old Testament books.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a three lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Genesis-Leviticus: God Builds a People for Himself
  • Lesson 2: Exodus - A Nation is Born/The Exodus and Sinai
  • Lesson 3: Leviticus - Living God's Way/Emphasis on Holiness
  • Final Exam

Course 2 :
Numbers-Joshua: The Tragedy of Fear and the Glory of Faith

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This course is a study of contrasts. Israel’s fear prevented them from entering the land God promised to give them, resulting in the story of wandering and death recorded in Numbers. The books of Deuteronomy and Joshua record the preparation and triumph of faith as the people allowed God to win the Promised Land for them.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a three lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Numbers-Joshua: The Tragedy of Fear and the Glory of Faith
  • Lesson 2: God's Word, Geography, and Archaeology (Part 1)
  • Lesson 3: Deuteronomy-Joshua: The Benefits of Obedience, The Renewed Covenant, and the Conquest of the Promised Land
  • Final Exam

Course 3 :
Judges-1 Samuel: Israel's Choice From God-Rule to Human-Rule

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This course covers the books of Judges, Ruth and the book of 1 Samuel. These books contrast Israel as they rebelled against God’s rule in the period of Judges, but Ruth gives a snapshot of obedience during that same period. 1 Samuel examines Israel’s amazing transition from having God-as-their-King to having men-as-their kings.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a two lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Judges-1Samuel: Israel's Choice from God-Rules to Human-Rule
  • Lesson 2: A Case Study in Integrity Transition to Kingship
  • Final Exam

Course 4 :
2 Samuel-2 Kings: The Difference Leaders Make

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This course will guide students through a study of Israel’s kingdom era—as a united nation and as a nation divided into Israel and Judah. It not only covers this critical time in Israel’s history, but also provides an essential foundation for studying Israel’s prophets.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a four lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: 2Samuel-2Kings: The Difference Leaders Make
  • Lesson 2: 1Kings - Solomon and the Division of Israel
  • Lesson 3: Historical Overview of Archaeology - Part 2
  • Lesson 4: 2 Kings - From Elijah to the Exile
  • Final Exam

Course 5 :
1 Chronicles-Nehemiah: Grace Greater Than a Nation's Sins

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This course describes the fact that while Israel and Judah flaunted their disobedience in God’s face and persecuted His prophets, He kept His commitment to His covenant promises. Chronicles traces the Davidic kings through whom God would bring His Messiah. Although God exiled His people, Ezra and Nehemiah tell how He restored them to their land and life.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a three lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Chronicles-Nehemiah - Up from the Ashes
  • Lesson 2: Ezra and Nehemiah - Return and Rebuilding
  • Lesson 3: Old Testament - Texts and Versions
  • Final Exam

Course 6 :
Lamentations-Job: God's Path Through Pain

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Pressure and pain are realities of life. One of the verifying realities of the Old Testament record is its openness about the difficulties God’s people often suffered—and were often confused by. This course studies three books that deal head-on with the pain and pressure often associated with being God’s people.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a two lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Lamentations-Job: God's Path Through Pain
  • Lesson 2: Job - How a Good Person Grew Through His Suffering
  • Final Exam

Course 7 :
Proverbs-Psalms: Singing the Sounds of Real Life

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Times change and life’s issues take new forms. Solomon never sat in a traffic jam on the freeway and we never fret over an attack by the Philistines, but human emotions remain the same. In this course students will study the distilled language of Israel’s poets as they sang the songs of their lives.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a three lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Proverbs - God's Basic Rules for Human Beings
  • Lesson 2: Psalms - God's Word to Me and Our Words to God
  • Lesson 3: Proverbs - Understanding the Old Testament and Critical Methodologies
  • Final Exam

Course 8 :
Daniel-Micah: Studies of Integrity - Good Men in Bad Times

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God’s prophets stood up and spoke out when it was very unpopular to do so. As men with a message from God, they were preachers with a message that God-rejecting Israel and Judah wanted no part of. This course presents the men, their messages and their times.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a two lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Daniel - Life and Hope in the Exile
  • Lesson 2: Amos, Hosea, & Micah - Three Eighth-Century Prophets
  • Final Exam

Course 9 :
Ecclesiastes-Isaiah: God Guides His People Through Poets and Prophets

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This course takes students through two of the Old Testament books of poetry and then introduces them to the writing prophets—who also used a great deal of poetry in their writings. Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs present the importance of living life under God’s direction. Isaiah introduces the prophetic literature, which is a series of calls to abandon the pursuit of alternative lifestyles and live life God’s way.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a two lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Ecclesiastes & Song of Songs - Skeptical Wisdom and Marriage Wisdom
  • Lesson 2: Isaiah - A Prophet Who Saw It All
  • Final Exam

Course 10 :
Jeremiah-Ezekiel: Human Failure & Divine Success - A Study in Contrast

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In this course students will learn about two prophets whose ministry related to Jerusalem’s fall to the Babylonians. This unthinkable event is studied as a threat in Jeremiah and as a historical reality in Ezekiel. Both the miserable failure of God’s people and God’s success in judging and yet preserving His people are surveyed in this course that studies these two prophets.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a three lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Jeremiah - The Faithful God Rebukes and Preserves His Faithless People
  • Lesson 2: Ezekiel - Visions of the Exile and Apocalyptic
  • Lesson 3: Ezekiel - Canon, Canonicity, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Final Exam

Course 11 :
Jonah-Habakkuk: The God of Israel and the God of the Nations

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This course demonstrates the fact that while God had chosen Israel as His covenant people, His compassion extended beyond Israel to all people. The course presents prophets whom God sent to Israel’s great oppressor and prophets God sent to Judah.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a three lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Jonah-Habakkuk: The God of Israel and the God of the Nations
  • Lesson 2: Joel, Zephaniah, and Habakkuk - Three Judean Prophets
  • Lesson 3: Archaeology's Contribution to Old Testament Study
  • Final Exam

Course 12 :
Haggai-Malachi: No Substitute for Obedience

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The prophets studied in this course ministered after Jerusalem’s destruction and during the return and reconstruction of Jerusalem after the exile in Babylon. They demonstrate God’s concern for all His people, Jew and Gentile, and emphasize the essential place of obedience to His moral will.

This course presents both basic and essential details for an accurate understanding of Old Testament Scriptures. Organized in a two lesson format, the course provides guided content outlines, audio-visual lecture presentations, and quizzing modules.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Haggai and Zechariah - Prophets of the Judean Restoration
  • Lesson 2: Obadiah and Malachi - Miseries and Messianic Hope
  • Final Exam

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Instructors

  • Dr. Douglas K. Stuart
    Dr. Douglas K. Stuart

    Douglas Stuart is Professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, where he specializes in Assyrian and Babylonian languages and literature. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, did graduate studies at Yale Divinity School, and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University.


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