Mobile Ed: OT204 The Social World of the Old Testament (4 hour course - audio)
Format: Digital
Publisher: Lexham Press, 2016
Overview
In an age of international travel and migration, we’re familiar
with people who look, sound, eat, and believe differently than we do. In
order to become friends, it’s helpful to understand where they come
from and how they do things differently, or the same, as we do. In the
same way it is necessary to understand someone who comes from a
different place than we do, how much more necessary is it to understand
someone who is from not only a different geographical place, but also a
different time than we are? The Old Testament starts at the beginning of
the world. This course will undertake the task of crossing the bridges
of geography, climate, time, and a landscape unknown to us: ancient
Israel. Throughout the course, David W. Baker will address aspects of
life from our own culture and time, as well as family structure and
societal systems from ancient Israelite life. As we learn more about the
social world of the Old Testament, we will be struck not only by our
differences, but also by our common humanity, sharing the same dreams,
hopes, and fears as they did.