Bible Overview Menu
Mike Ervin
Bible Overview - The Menu
What is this Bible Overview? Frankly most people of faith have not read every book, but often would occasionally like to find out what a particular book is about. Here is your chance. The "menu" is below. Try it.
Hebrew Bible
1. Genesis 2. Exodus 3. Leviticus 4. Numbers 5. Deuteronomy 6. Joshua 7. Judges 8. Ruth 9. 1st Samuel 10. 2nd Samuel 11. 1st Kings 12. 2nd Kings 13. 1st Chronicles 14. 2nd Chronicles 15. Ezra 16. Nehemiah 17. Esther 18. Job 19. Psalms 20. Proverbs 21. Ecclesiastes 22. Solomon's Song 23. Isaiah 24. Jeremiah 25. Lamentations 26. Ezekiel 27. Daniel 28. Hosea 29. Joel 30. Amos 31. Obadiah 32. Jonah 33. Micah 34. Nahum 35. Habakkuk 36. Zephaniah 37. Haggai 38. Zechariah 39 .Malachi
New Testament
40. Matthew 41. Mark 42. Luke 43. John 44. Acts 45. Romans 46. 1st Corinthians 47. 2nd Corinthians 48. Galatians 49. Ephesians 50. Philippians 51. Colossians 52.1st Thessalonians 53. 2nd Thessalonians 54.1stTimothy 55. 2nd Timothy 56. Titus 57. Philemon 58. Hebrews 59. James 60.1st Peter 61. 2nd Peter 62. 1st John 63. 2nd John 64. 3rd John 65. Jude 66.Revelation
So what is in this this Bible Overview? And why is it here? Most Christians swear by their Bible but have not read anywhere near all of it. The Bible is a large and complicated story. And with a great deal of that story created in ancient times in the ancient near east at a time when most of the population was illiterate and when ancient writings often were lost to the ravages of time.
And another aspect of this issue is that if we look at the actual history of scholarly biblical work we learn that the amount of scholarship done on this bible has increased rather spectacularly in the last few 100 years. The growth in numbers and size of universities (as well as the world population) has dramatically increased and with most of them now maintaining colleges of biblical studies with large faculties. And with the recent growth of information being made available to scholars around the world over the internet.
So this is an attempt to provide concise but fairly comprehensive "overviews" of each book of this Bible for today's readers. And to get an idea of how modern scholars view them. Yes - we mean all 66 books of what is often called the Protestant Christian Bible.
The menu above contains 66 links, one for each of the books in Protestant bibles. By clicking on each of the links the reader can get a concise but fairly comprehensive overview of each book. Each review will address things like the authorship, date of authorship, the intended audience, the major themes covered, and provide a sequential review of the contents of each chapter or set of chapters.