This support site was created for the Old Testament History course in the RLAB class
at Smithfield United Methodist Church (SUMC). The starting date for the class is
January 20, 2008. Various support materials and information for the course are
provided on this site.
Course Books
Main Book
The main textbook for all classes in this course is the Christian Bible. The English
Standard Version (ESV) is the translation most commonly used by the teacher in the
class. However, any of the translations in the Revised Standard Version (RSV)
tradition are fine (as are any translations) for use. Thus, the suggested
translations to use are:
English Standard Version - ESV
New Revised Standard Version - NRSV
Revised Standard Version - RSV
Supplementary Books
Old Testament History
The secondary textbook is Old Testament Survey 2nd Edition by Paul R.
House and Eric Mitchell (copyright 2007). People taking the Old Testament History
Class are encouraged to get and read this book also. Coordinated reading
assignments will be provided during the course.
Old Testament
History Notes
These lecture notes are used while teaching Old Testament History classes. They are
being developed for the current class while the class is being taught. The notes are
a work in progress and are not necessarily coherent reading, such as, an article
would be.
Romans Notes
These lecture notes are used while teaching Romans classes. They are being developed
for the current class while the class is being taught. The notes are a work in
progress and are not necessarily coherent reading, such as, an article would be.
John Wesley's
Conversion
An excerpt from John Wesley's Journal describing his journey to trusting Jesus and
his conversion experience. Comments accompany most of the paragraphs in the excerpt.
These comments are shown in pop up windows when the comment icon is clicked.
John
Wesley's Conversion
An excerpt from John Wesley's Journal describing his journey to trusting Jesus and
his conversion experience. Comments accompany most of the paragraphs in the excerpt.
These comments are shown in yellow
highlighted text just before the paragraph to which they apply. John Wesley's
Doctrinal Statement
The Articles of Religion are an official doctrinal statement of American Methodism.
John Wesley abridged for the American Methodists the Thirty-Nine Articles of
Anglicanism, removing the Calvinistic parts among others. The Articles were adopted
at a conference in 1784 and are found in paragraph 103 of the United Methodist Church
Book of Discipline. They have remained relatively unchanged since 1808 (save for a
few additional articles added in later years).
Bible History Notes
Bible History Notes
Notes on the Bible stressing historical issues and analyses. Bible History
Notes is a PDF file that may be viewed in your current web browser or downloaded
and viewed in a PDF reader program, such as, Adobe Reader.
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