Read the Old Testament Like You Never Have Before
A rigorous, book-by-book journey through the entire Old Testament — from Genesis to the Minor Prophets — that forms you into a reader who can handle Scripture with honesty, depth, and theological maturity.
10 schools · 269 lessons
The outcomes
What you get
- Read every major section of the Old Testament — Law, History, Wisdom, and Prophecy — as a theologically unified whole rather than disconnected fragments.
- Develop durable interpretive skills: literary analysis, historical-critical awareness, and canonical reading that you can apply beyond this course.
- Engage honestly with the Bible's hardest texts — suffering in Job, exile in Kings, apocalyptic vision in Daniel — without reaching for easy or evasive answers.
- Understand the Old Testament's own logic on its own terms before mapping it onto later theology, deepening both your biblical literacy and your faith.
- Build a working knowledge of the ancient Near Eastern world that produced the Hebrew Scriptures, so context informs rather than threatens your reading.
- Arrive at the New Testament — and at Christian doctrines of salvation, justice, and hope — with an Old Testament foundation that actually holds weight.
You begin where the Bible begins: with Genesis and Exodus, the twin foundations on which everything else stands. Before you can understand Israel's kings, prophets, or poets, you need to see how creation, fall, covenant, and redemption are already woven into the fabric of the text. These first two schools don't just survey content — they teach you how to read — attending to literary structure, ancient context, and theological argument as a unified whole.
From there, the journey deepens. You move through Israel's Historical Books, watching how biblical writers interpreted conquest, monarchy, and exile not as bare history but as covenant theology in narrative form. Then Wisdom Literature and the Psalms open a different register entirely — the inner life, honest suffering, the limits of knowledge, the language of prayer. By the time you arrive at Job and Proverbs in dedicated focus, you've built the interpretive muscles to sit with difficult texts without flinching or flattening them.
The final movement takes you into the Prophets: Isaiah's sweeping architecture of judgment and hope, Daniel's apocalyptic literature read in its ancient context rather than through a modern decoder ring, and the Twelve Minor Prophets restored to their rightful place as indispensable theological witnesses. By the finish line, you haven't just covered the Old Testament — you've been shaped by it. You think differently, read more carefully, and engage Scripture with a confidence grounded in genuine understanding.
Is this you?
Who this is for
The Serious Lay Reader
You've read the Bible for years but sense you've been skimming the surface — this certificate gives you the structure and scholarship to finally go deep without going to seminary.
The Pastor or Ministry Leader
You preach and teach from the Old Testament regularly but want rigorous, text-centered formation that strengthens your exegesis and theological confidence from the ground up.
The Curious Skeptic or Returning Believer
You have real questions about the Old Testament — its violence, its complexity, its relevance — and you want honest engagement with the text, not defensive apologetics or shallow reassurance.
The journey, step by step
Your path
A rigorous, book-by-book study of Genesis that reads it as a unified theological narrative — tracing its literary structure, ancient Near Eastern context, and foundational themes through every chapter, from creation to Joseph.
25 lessons
Theoria: Exodus and the Story of Redemption
A serious theological and literary study of the book of Exodus — from slavery in Egypt to covenant at Sinai — tracing how this foundational narrative shapes Israel's identity, the whole of Scripture, and Christian understandings of salvation.
26 lessonsUnlocks after step 1
Explore Israel's story from conquest to restoration through Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, and more — reading these books as the complex theological narratives they are. Understand how biblical writers interpreted the past in light of covenant, kingship, exile, and hope.
28 lessonsUnlocks after step 2
A rigorous, unhurried study of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes that takes seriously the Bible's own struggle with suffering, meaning, and the limits of human knowledge. Learn to read wisdom texts on their own terms — literary, historical, and theological.
27 lessonsUnlocks after step 3
Theoria: Psalms for Spiritual Formation
A serious, scholarship-grounded school for exploring the Psalms as poetry, theology, and living prayer — letting Israel's ancient songbook shape your inner life, your worship, and your honest conversation with God.
28 lessonsUnlocks after step 4
Theoria: Proverbs & Biblical Wisdom
Explore the book of Proverbs as a living tradition of moral formation, theological depth, and practical discernment. Learn to read biblical wisdom honestly, apply it faithfully, and live skillfully before God in a complex world.
28 lessonsUnlocks after step 5
Theoria: Job & the Problem of Suffering
A rigorous, text-centered study of the Book of Job that takes its literary complexity and theological difficulty seriously — equipping learners to wrestle honestly with suffering, divine justice, and the limits of human understanding without reaching for easy answers.
26 lessonsUnlocks after step 6
A sustained, scholarly study of the Book of Isaiah — its historical world, literary architecture, and sweeping theology of judgment, hope, and restoration. Engage one of Scripture's most complex and consequential prophetic books with rigor, depth, and canonical breadth.
29 lessonsUnlocks after step 7
A rigorous, context-driven study of the Book of Daniel — its court stories, apocalyptic visions, and enduring theology — for learners who want depth over speculation. Understand Daniel as ancient Scripture shaped for communities under pressure, not a modern prophecy decoder.
25 lessonsUnlocks after step 8
A sustained, scholarly exploration of Hosea through Malachi — twelve distinct prophetic voices examined in their historical, literary, and theological depth. Learn to read the Minor Prophets not as footnotes to Scripture but as indispensable witnesses to justice, mercy, judgment, and hope.
27 lessonsUnlocks after step 9
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How it works
One purchase, the whole path
Start with step 1
You get instant access to Theoria: Genesis Explained the moment you join.
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Finish each school to open the next — the path keeps you moving in the right order.
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Every lesson adapts to your level, with an AI tutor answering questions as you go.
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10 schools · 269 lessons · one price