PowerPoint presentations now available

for Judges, Ruth and Samuel (up to 2 Samuel 11): click here

Also available are (semi-)critical introductions to each book and some special studies for Judges.

I created a special page off of Room 152 on the EHCS site for PP and handouts. I mention them here for whatever benefit it might bring you. I will reproduce here the short notice I have posted there:

A note about the PP slides: The presentations are prepared for and are also a result of teaching through Judges, Ruth and Samuel (twice at EHCS and once at Central Church to an adult Bible class). They are the result of preparation for and the process of teaching in classroom settings. As such, they depend on the teacher/class interactive dynamic. I have not included in the slides all that I said about any text or topic. The slides are the gist of the matter and represent only a fraction of what was presented. I reproduce them here primarily for the benefit of my current students who would like to review the notes at home. Those of you who are eavesdropping are more than welcome to do so, but please keep the foregoing in mind.

PP's from my Genesis class at Central Church are forthcoming and will be posted to the church site. These presentations are far more detailed: church folks do not have to take any notes and I can assume a bit more with them and can cover more depth for longer periods of time.

In neither case is my audience an assembly of "academics". (I hate labels). On the one hand I teach High school teens many of whom have no church-experience whatsoever (thus, my goal is basic introduction and survey); on the other hand I teach within the context of a local community of faith and my teaching there is aimed at a theologically informed shaping of the church, as the people of God, by the story of God. In both cases the academic meat of the study of any particular book is mediated to different audiences with differing needs. Insofar as they might be helpful to you, they are yours to peruse.

Grace and peace.