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Help with Bible reading order Christanon 08/02/18 (Thu) 22:15:46 9ba012 No.683293

I have recently started studying about the Bible and read from Genesis to II Kings. As far as I understand, those are all the pre-exilic historical books, so should I just continue and read I Chronicles or should I read the Prophetic and Wisdom books that were written before the Babylonian exile? Since I'll probably forget a lot of details about the historical books if I read the Bible from cover to cover, would it be a problem when I get to the prophets?

And, to those who already read the Good Book, which reading order do you find the best for a Christian?

Christanon 08/03/18 (Fri) 01:40:54 e21afd No.683368

Haven't read the entire bible myself but perhaps looking into the supposed composition dates and traditional parashah divisions might be of interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament#Composition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parashah

Christanon 08/03/18 (Fri) 02:03:33 0bc78d No.683381

I'm at a bit of a loss with this myself. I started from the beginning of the OT, read the five books of Moses and then some of Joshua, and then I just couldn't resist and skipped to the beginning of the NT, as I really wanted to read about Christ (and boy was I not disappointed… I forgot Jesus had such fine banter). I gained enough information from the five books of Moses to know who Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and so forth are going into Matthew, so I felt as if I didn't miss too much, although I'll definitely get back to reading the OT before long.

Christanon 08/03/18 (Fri) 02:09:21 934cad No.683386

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>>683293

If you're new, I would highly recommend first reading through the Four Gospels. After all, the Bible is all about Jesus Christ who is The Messiah.

I currently use this Bible reading plan <https://www.biblica.com/resources/reading-plans/>, I like it because this plan puts the OT books in chronological order (e.g. Book of Job actually happened around the time of Abraham). Also you get to read a bit of the OT, NT, and a Psalm/Proverb each day.

Christanon 08/03/18 (Fri) 02:59:22 cd4678 No.683422

>>683381

I actually read the Gospels a long time ago (not John though).

To best honest with you, I'm not much of a Christian nowadays, but that's why I'm trying to study the Bible and understand Christianity. I'll try to do a more devotional reading after I read it completely and I think that the best way to achieve my current goal would be to read the OT before the NT so I can get a better understanding of the NT.

>>683386

That's a really nice plan, I might follow the OT reading order and try to read a bit of Psalms and Proverbs every day.

But, even though the story happened around the time of Abraham, wasn't Job probably written during or after the exile? I honestly don't know much about it.

Christanon 08/03/18 (Fri) 04:18:52 301818 No.683462

>>683422

>But, even though the story happened around the time of Abraham, wasn't Job probably written during or after the exile?

The actual book was written sometime after Moses, because while none of the actual dialogue has it, the narrative in the opening and closing chapters does use the name Jehovah = LORD. According to Exodus 6:3, that name wasn't known by Abraham et. al.

Christanon 08/03/18 (Fri) 09:21:53 89830a No.683539

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>>683386

>I currently use this Bible reading plan https://www.biblica.com/resources/reading-plans/

Thanks.

>>683368

>traditional parashah divisions might be of interest

As for the traditional divisions of the New Testament used in the Orthodox Church, see this:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fazbyka.ru%2Fdays%2Fukaz_cht.php

(There are some errors because I am using google translate, but the meaning is clear I hope.) If you want to know the reading for a particular day, you can use this: https://oca.org/readings

A prayer before reading the Bible:

Illumine our hearts, O Master Who lovest mankind, with the pure light of Thy divine knowledge. Open the eyes of our mind to the understanding of Thy gospel teachings. Implant also in us the fear of Thy blessed commandments, that trampling down all carnal desires, we may enter upon a spiritual manner of living, both thinking and doing such things as are well-pleasing unto Thee. For Thou art the illumination of our souls and bodies, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, Who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.