Thirty-nine books, one story
Read the Old Testament without getting lost
Genesis to Malachi is one connected story, not a pile of unrelated books. This path walks the whole arc: creation, covenant, exodus, kingdom, exile, and return. You will learn where each book sits and why it was written.
Built for the days between Sundays
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
What you'll come away with
What this path is for
Not a reading streak. These are the things you should be able to do on your own once you have worked through it.
Place any book on the timeline
Given a book like Amos or Ezra, you will know roughly when it was written, who it was written to, and what was happening in Israel at the time.
Follow the covenant thread
Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and the new covenant Jeremiah promised. You will trace how each one builds on the last instead of treating them as separate deals.
Read the law without stalling
Leviticus and Deuteronomy stop being a wall. You will understand what the sacrificial system was for and how the New Testament writers read it.
Hear the prophets in context
Prophecy stops sounding like random doom. You will know which kingdom each prophet addressed and what hope they held out to it.
How the tutor works
A tutor, not a search box
The same eight habits run through every path. They are what make this study rather than summary.
Questions first
Open a passage and Trinity asks what you noticed. Your reading comes first, then the explanation.
Greek and Hebrew, one tap away
Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it. See what it can mean and where else it shows up.
Follow the thread
Pick one image, promise, or line. Follow it from Genesis through the prophets into the Gospels.
Context that clicks
Who wrote it, to whom, and why. Get the background the first readers already knew.
A plan that bends
Miss a week and nobody guilt-trips you. Your plan fits the time you actually have and picks up where you left off.
Bring your doubts
Ask the question you'd never ask out loud. Trinity takes it seriously, no judgment.
Pick up the thread
Every session ends with a short recap of what you read and what's worth coming back to.
Every side, fairly told
On baptism, the end times, and more, you get the main views and their best arguments. Disputed questions are labelled as disputed.
The path itself
What you'll study, in order
Each unit builds on the one before it. Lessons live inside Trinity; this is the shape of the ground you will cover.
Beginnings
What kind of book Genesis is
Creation, and the disputes about Genesis 1
The flood and the covenant with Noah
Abraham: the promise that starts everything
Jacob, Joseph, and how Israel ends up in Egypt
Exodus and law
Slavery, plagues, and the name of God
Passover and the sea
Sinai: what a covenant actually is
Tabernacle, priesthood, sacrifice
Wilderness failure in Numbers
Deuteronomy as a farewell sermon
Land and kings
Joshua and the conquest questions
Judges: the cycle that keeps repeating
Ruth: a quiet counter-story
Samuel and the demand for a king
David, and the promise in 2 Samuel 7
Solomon, the split, and two kingdoms
Prophets
What a prophet was for
Amos, Hosea, and Micah to the north
Isaiah and Jerusalem's crisis
Jeremiah and the fall of the city
Ezekiel and Daniel in exile
The twelve after the return
Exile, return, and waiting
What exile did to Israel's faith
Ezra and Nehemiah rebuild
Esther: God unnamed but not absent
Job, Ecclesiastes, and honest questions
The four hundred years before Matthew
I've led a small group for six years, and honestly I was mostly repeating Sunday's sermon. Trinity kept asking what the passage actually said before it would tell me anything. Our Thursday nights are better for it.
I was baptized in March and still couldn't find anything in the Bible. I asked what a psalm even is, which felt embarrassing to type. It showed me Psalm 13, a man complaining to God. I didn't know that was allowed.
I mostly use it for word study. When I'm stuck on a Greek term, it walks me through what it can mean without pretending the question is settled. It's told me "scholars disagree here" more than once, which I respect.
Forty years in church and I'd never finished the Bible. I'm in Numbers now. Not thrilling, but I'm still going. Most days I read it before the kettle's boiled.
I'm not sure I believe any of it yet. I came in wanting to argue, and I still do. It argues back properly. It names the best objection before I can, and it doesn't sulk when I won't concede.
I ask it what a fifteen-year-old would really ask about a chapter. It gives me the awkward questions, not the tidy ones. Twice now it's sent me off to study properly, which I suppose is the point.
I read on my phone during my eleven-minute break, and it never tries to make it an hour. Last week it caught that I'd misread who was speaking in Job. It was one of the friends, not God. Changed the whole chapter for me.
I work in two languages, so I'm fussy about words. I asked why one Hebrew word is lovingkindness in one place and steadfast love in another. I got a real answer about hesed, not a devotional paragraph.
I worried it would hand my people easy answers to hard chapters. It mostly doesn't. Someone asked it about hell, and it laid out what Christians have held and said plainly which parts are disputed. I can work with that.
I sit with dying people, so I don't have much patience for cheerfulness. I'd been avoiding the lament psalms. It walked me through Psalm 88, which ends in the dark and stays there, and it didn't rush to fix it.
I'd abandoned three reading plans before this one. I went quiet for a while, came back, and it just carried on. No lecture. I'm in Isaiah now.
Before you start
Questions people ask about this path
No. This path follows the historical arc because that is the easiest way to keep the story straight, but you can start at any unit. If you have never read it at all, Genesis, Exodus, 1 Samuel, and Isaiah give you the spine in about six weeks.
About sixteen weeks at three sessions a week, or six months at a slower pace. Trinity remembers where you stopped and picks up there, and nothing expires if you take a month off.
The path does not skip it. Trinity will show you how Christians have read those texts, including the readings that trouble them, and it will not pretend the question is easy. You are allowed to keep objecting.
You can read in the translation you prefer. Verse text quoted on this site is the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Trinity will also show you where translations differ and why it matters.
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The first unit is free, and you do not need to know anything going in. Trinity will ask what you noticed before it explains a thing.
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