Ancient History: Adam to Messiah
Seven Ancient History Unit
Studies focusing on Bible History
 Sample
Lessons from the book
This book covers a time frame from creation through
the ministry of our Messiah, Jesus. It is crucial
that students understand the ancient times to
have a better grasp of the Bible.
The Greek, Roman, Canaanite, Mesopotamian, and
Egyptian cultural backgrounds are important in
understanding certain aspects of the biblical
text. By the finding of archeology, we know that
throughout hundreds of years of biblical history,
Jews lived within or rubbed shoulders with many
of these civilizations. Since the Bible - in a
magnificent and yet mysterious way - is God's
voice (divinely inspired) in human words (culturally,
conditioned language) is absolutely essential
to understand the various peoples and religions
of the biblical world. Without entering the Mesopotamian
world of the patriarchs, the Egyptian world of
the Exodus, the Babylonian world of Daniel, and
the Persian world of Esther - to name but a few
- knowledge of the commonalties as well as differences
which the Hebrews experienced in relation to their
neighbors, each so vital to the process of biblical
interpretation will be lost. (Wilson).
Book
and Bound Book Options
Secular history texts focus on major civilizations
in each time period. Our focus is on major civilizations
in relation to God's people, the Israelites.
See the resources suggested in this book
Ancient
Israel Resources
Early
Church Resources
Bible
Resources
Bible
Resources for Elementary Grades
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