A Birds-Eye View of the Bible | Page 3

of Solomon| 975-721 | | | | | |Proverbs +--------------+ | | | (Read Psalms| |Ecclesiastes |Jonah | | | | 8, 90, | | |Amos | | | | 105-107) | | |Hosea | | | | | | +--------------+ | | | | | | JUDAH | | | | | | | 975-606 | | | | | | +--------------+ | | | | | |Joel | | | | | | |Isaiah | | | | | | |Micah | | | | | | |Nahum | | | | | | |Zephaniah | | | | | | |Habakkuk | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+ |NUMBER OF | | | | | | |BOOKS | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 12 | +--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+
+--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+ | | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | | NAMES OF |THE KINGDOM |THE KINGDOM|THE KINGDOM'S| THE KINGDOM |THE KINGDOM| | DIVISIONS |IN CAPTIVITY| RESTORED | TRUE KING | CONQUERING | TRIUMPHANT| | | | | | THE WORLD | | +--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+ |Beginning and | 606-536 | 536-420 | 4 B.C.-29 | 29 A.D. | | |Ending Dates | B.C. | B.C. | A.D. | | | +--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+ |Names of Books|Daniel |Ezra |Matthew |Acts |Revelation | | |Esther |Nehemiah |Mark | ---- | | | | ---- | ---- |Luke |I Thessalonians | | | |Jeremiah |Haggai |John |II Thessalonians| | | |Lamentations|Zechariah | |Galatians | | | |Obadiah |Malachi | |I Corinthians | | | |Ezekiel | | |Romans | | | | | | |II Corinthians | | | | (Read Ps. | | |Philemon | | | | 137) | | |Ephesians | | | | | | |Philippians | | | | | | |Colossians | | | | | | |Hebrews | | | | | | |I Timothy | | | | | | |Titus | | | | | | |II Timothy | | | | | | |James | | | | | | |I Peter | | | | | | |II Peter | | | | | | |Jude | | | | | | |I John | | | | | | |II John | | | | | | |III John | | +--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+ |NUMBER OF | | | | | | |BOOKS | 6 | 5| 4 | 22 | 1| +--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+
NOTES ON THE CHART
1. The sixty-six books are divided into ten groups, according to their relation to the Kingdom. In this connection the word Kingdom is not used in any restricted or technical sense. It is used to designate the Kingdom of God instituted to redeem the race from sin, under whatever form manifested.
2. Several of the books are not located in their exact places. Esther is located in Division Six because it is Captivity narrative. The Kings and Chronicles technically overlap two divisions. Lamentations and Jeremiah chronologically belong to the preceding division, but are placed among the books of the Captivity because their wails betoken that event.
3. The books in each division are arranged in chronological order. In Division Nine the fourteen epistles of Paul are placed first, in the order of their composition, then the seven general epistles in the order of their writing.
4. Where the books of a division are separated into two groups by a dash, those above the dash are historical, those beneath the dash are biographical, or poetical, or legal, or prophetical, or epistolary.
5. The teacher may exercise his own judgment in requiring the committal of this chart at the start, or part by part as the study proceeds.

I
THE KINGDOM FORESHADOWED
Genesis Page
Job Page
NOTES
1. Use full page in blank book, copying as above.
2. Place number of page on which above studies begin in blank book. This serves as index.
OUTLINE FOR STUDY OF HISTORICAL BOOKS
1. Pictorial Device.
2. Kind of Literature.
3. Meaning of Name.
4. Author.
5. Beginning and Ending Dates.
6. Outline of Contents.
7. Key Verse.
8. Leading Thought.
9. Leading Phrases and Verses.
10. Leading Chapters with Names.
11. Leading Characters.
12. Leading Lessons.
13. What of Christ:
(a) Symbol.
(b) Type.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Prophecy.
14. Questions.
15. Items of Special Interest.
16. Individual Finds.
NOTES ON HISTORICAL OUTLINE AND ITS USE
Most of the books in the first four divisions will be studied with this outline as a basis. In the pursuance of these lessons the numbers left vacant in the outline are to be wrought out by the pupils. In recording the work in the blank book the first page is to be given to the pictorial device. One of these will be printed in its appropriate place. Let students prepare the others. Urge the pupils to use originality of thought and pen in producing them. The aim of the device is to impress by a simple picture the contents of