Get Grounded: Understanding The Historical And Cultural Context Of The Bible

By: Jennifer Hayes Yates

Get Grounded is a Bible handbook providing the context that brings deeper insight and understanding to the Scriptures. With historical and cultural background on each book, along with timelines, charts, and summaries, this resource brings clarity to Bible so you can get grounded in the Word and grow your faith.

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Book Description

Are you ever overwhelmed by the vastness and complexity of the Bible?
Are you sometimes unsure where to begin your Bible reading journey?
Do some parts of the Bible seem challenging to comprehend?

One thing I have discovered over the years is that we avoid what we don't understand. And some parts of the Bible can be really confusing.
It's not in chronological order.
It's written in different styles of literature.
It's written within a particular history and culture that are different from ours.

After many years of both formal and informal study, I have learned how to approach the Bible from its chronological, historical, cultural, and literary context, and that view brings clarity and understanding to God’s Word.

The good news is that you, too, CAN grow your understanding of the Bible. Get Grounded: Understanding the Historical and Cultural Context of the Bible is a tool to help you do just that. Based on research in biblical studies from reliable scholars, Get Grounded provides the context that brings deeper insight and understanding to the Scriptures.

In the pages of Get Grounded, you will:
Gain an overview of all 66 books of the Bible and their themes;
Explore the historical and cultural background of each book;
Dive deeper into explanations of each genre of the Bible, such as historical narrative, wisdom literature, and epistles;
Learn how each book fits into the metanarrative—the big-picture view of the Bible’s overarching story of Creation, the Fall, redemption, and restoration.
Discover charts, timelines, and summaries that bring the Bible together into one big story of redemption.

Get Grounded is a resource you will turn to again and again, whether in your personal Bible study time or as a tool for small groups and teaching ministries.

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