A Brief Bible History

by James Oscar Boyd and J. Gresham Machen

A BRIEF BIBLE HISTORY

A SURVEY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

JAMES OSCAR BOYD, Ph.D., D.D.

AND

JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN, D.D.

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PHILADELPHIA

THE WESTMINSTER PRESS

1922

Introduction

This book surveys the history of God's redeeming grace. It reviews Old Testament history, disclosing the stream of God's redeeming purposes flowing down through the older times. It reviews New Testament history, disclosing the broadening and deepening of that purpose for us men and for mankind in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and his Church.

The chapters included in this book appear also as a part of Teaching the Teacher, a First Book in Teacher Training, and are issued in this form to supply the demand for a brief Bible history, for popular reading.

Harold McA. Robinson.

Contents

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Section I

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES

Lesson		Page
I.	Before Abraham	7
II.	The Patriarchs	10
III.	Egyptian Bondage and Deliverance	13
IV.	Moses as Leader and Lawgiver	16
V.	The Conquest and Settlement of Canaan	19
VI.	The Period of the Judges	22
VII.	Samuel and Saul: Prophecy and Monarchy	25
VIII.	David and Solomon; Psalms and Wisdom	28
IX.	The Kingdom of Israel	31
X.	The Kingdom of Judah, to Hezekiah	34
XI.	Judah, from Hezekiah to the Exile	37
XII.	The Exile and the Restoration	40
XIII.	The Jewish State Under Persia	43
XIV.	Israel's Religious Life	46
XV.	"The Coming One"	49

Section II

THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES

I.	The Preparation	55
II.	The Coming of the Lord	58
III.	The Baptism	61
IV.	The Early Judean Ministry	64
V.	The Beginning of the Galilæan Ministry	67
VI.	The Period of Popularity	70
VII.	The Turning Point	73
VIII.	Jesus as Messiah	76
IX.	The Prediction of the Cross	79
X.	The Last Journeys	83
XI.	Teaching in the Temple	86
XII.	The Crucifixion	89
XIII.	The Resurrection	93
XIV.	The Beginnings of the Christian Church	96
XV.	The First Persecution	99
XVI.	The Conversion of Paul	102
XVII.	The Gospel Given to the Gentiles	105
XVIII.	The First Missionary Journey and the Apostolic Council	109
XIX.	The Second Missionary Journey	112
XX.	The Third Missionary Journey. The Epistle to the Galatians	115
XXI.	The Third Missionary Journey. The Epistles to the Corinthians and to the Romans	118
XXII.	The First Imprisonment of Paul	122
XXIII.	The Close of the Apostolic Age	125