Overview

The Lightning-Fast Field Guide to the Bible offers a quick and smart breakdown of each book of Scripture to help you discover ""must-know"" facts--who, what, where, when, and why--along with fresh and surprising takes on questions you didn't even know to ask. You want to understand the Bible better, but you don't need a huge commentary with hard-to-understand words. The Lightning-Fast Field Guide to the Bible fills that gap by using concise, playful, and relatable language to tell you everything you want to know and more about the most influential document in history. With skill and humor, creator and host of The Ten Minute Bible Hour Matt Whitman helps you: Grasp key details about each book of the Bible in just minutes Better understand and appreciate the overarching story of Scripture Keep key information at your fingertips as you study the Bible Discover that learning about Scripture can be fun, fast, and easy   For each book of the Bible, this field guide covers essential facts--like original audience and historical context--as well as tidbits you likely never thought of, like the personality of the author, the most shocking moment, and ""stuff you can still look at"" in archaeological sites across the Middle East. Altogether, this compact companion and quick-reference guide brings the Bible alive and helps you explore God's Word in ways you never thought possible.

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Matt Whitman distills and renders every book of the Bible in an interesting and memorable way. Calling it a 'lightning-fast field guide' is right. It wastes no time, yet it's a valuable reference tool to get a grip on every book of the Bible. And since Matt wrote it, you know that it's punchy and not boring. * Michael Patrick Harding, president, Explorer's Bible Study Association * This book is a podcast on paper. It grips your attention, moves fast, and tells you things you may have never heard. Best of all, the author knows how to connect the reader--you!--with the world's all-time bestseller. In the end, we all need to read the Bible. But we may need a jump start. You'll find it here. Dig in and take off! * Robert W. Yarbrough, professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary * With his characteristic humor and plainspoken insight, Matt Whitman invites the reader on a whirlwind tour of the Sacred Scriptures. He provides vital stats and a concise summary for each book and suggests a basic outline that both highlights the structure and gives a visual architecture of each component part, and thus of the whole library of writings. By providing a bird's-eye view of the whole Bible, Matt helps readers get a unified sense of the diverse writings that the Bible comprises. I highly recommend this book for those who are brand-new to the Scriptures, for old hands who still struggle to understand how the Bible all hangs together, and for anyone who wants to solidify their grasp of God's great message to mankind. * William Weedon, assistant pastor, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Hamel, Illinois; catechist on LPR podcast The Word of the Lord Endures Forever *

Author Information

Matt Whitman is the creator and host of Ten-Minute Bible Hour. He’s a longtime Evangelical Free Church pastor with graduate degrees in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and in history from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Matt has a soft spot for honest questions and the people who ask them, regardless of whether they come from the same perspective as he does. Matt, his wife, Camilla, and their three kids live in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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