Old Testament Survey

By Eric Mitchell and Archie England

A companion to the newly revised and expanded second edition of Old Testament Survey, this student workbook features all-new exercises for seminary classroom settings, including map work, fill-in-the-blanks, etc.

Professors should note this is all new text that is not connected to the previous edition of the workbook that accompanied the original 1992 edition of Old Testament Survey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BH Publishing Group
• Release date: Sep 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781433672828

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To Nancy, my best friend and partner, and

to Molly, John, Anna, and Emily Mitchell

"May God's Blessing shine upon you all your days

for you have all of my blessing"

pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

and

To the one who has stood so faithfully by me

all these years of ministry and study, my wife Karen,

along with God's later blessings named Allison,

Courtney, and Emily England.

CONTENTS

Preface

How to Use This Workbook

Beginning the Study

PART I THE PENTATEUCH

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

PART II THE FORMER PROPHETS

Joshua

Judges

1, 2 Samuel

1, 2 Kings

PART III THE LATTER PROPHETS

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Book of the Twelve

PART IV THE WRITINGS

Psalms

Job

Proverbs

Ruth

Song of Songs

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Esther

Daniel

Ezra–Nehemiah

1, 2 Chronicles

PREFACE

This book attempts to supplement the beginning student's study of the Old Testament. As with the Survey textbook, we here define beginning student from our experiences with college freshmen, serious church study groups, and seminary students. Such students range in age from 18 to 80. They are intelligent and willing to learn, but they need guidance and motivation to study a part of the Scriptures often thought irrelevant in our culture. We have tried to write this workbook for the benefit of both students and instructors—offering basic questions for further study, mapwork, etc., to facilitate the use of the textbook in the classroom to whatever extent the instructor and students require. It is a workbook challenging the student to think and delve further into the Bible as well as into Old Testament Survey by Paul House and Eric Mitchell. This text also offers flexibility, leaving instructors plenty of room to use it as daily assignments, daily quizzes, or as testing material.

We want to thank Paul House for the opportunity to contribute to this project. When I was his Garrett fellow at Southern Seminary, and ever since, he has been a good friend and mentor. We also want to thank our graphics artist Ray Pomerico who contributed all the figures and who did the technical editing of the maps.

Eric Mitchell and Archie England

HOW TO USE THIS WORKBOOK

FOR THE STUDENT

This workbook is designed to assist you on your daily journey through the study of the Old Testament. The questions contained in the following pages have been tried and proven in various classroom settings. Spending the time and effort to answer these workbook questions should enable you not only to learn the Old Testament but also to do well on weekly quizzes and sectional exams. This workbook is designed to be used with both your Bible and Survey textbook open at your side. Our prayer for this effort is that God will bless those who hide His Word in their hearts. May this workbook enable you to show yourself approved as God's worker.

FOR THE INSTRUCTOR

This workbook carefully follows the chapters of the revised Old Testament Survey by Paul House and Eric A. Mitchell. It draws questions directly from the text and then, at appropriate junctures, provides an overview of the emerging historical periods of the Old Testament. The workbook is dually designed. It can be used as a student workbook and as testing material for your class. Great care has been given to provide you with a variety of testing material, easily usable in SCANTRON or other formats for both weekly class quizzes or sectional exams. All pages are perforated so they may be used for class assignments as well. With the addition of Topics for Further Study at the end of major sections, we hope this workbook will also promote more engaging classroom discussions from better informed students. Moreover, as teachers we have designed this workbook to be used in whole or in part, based on your individual needs for an accountability tool for the study of the fundamentals of the Old Testament. An answer key is available upon request from the authors.

Eric Mitchell and Archie England

BEGINNING THE STUDY

Questions for Reflection

Maps

In blue ink, on the attached two-part map of Israel write-in the following regions, rivers, and bodies of water:

PART I

THE PENTATEUCH