The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year / Outline History of the Seventy and A Survey of the Books of Holy Scripture

by B. H. Roberts

LESSON IX.

THE HISTORICAL BOOKS.—(Continued.)

ANALYSIS.	REFERENCES.
I. The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Historical Period. 1. Book of Ezra. (a) Authorship. (b) Character of Contents. 2. Book of Nehemiah. (a) Authorship. (b) Contents.	Books of Ezra and Nehemiah; Note 1. Also all Bible Dictionaries and Helps cited in previous lessons in Part II, under titles of "Ezra," "Nehemiah."
II. The Book of Esther. 1. Authorship. 2. Historical Character. 3. The Feast of Purim as Witness of Its Historical Character. 4. Its omission of the name of God.	"Esther," and "Purim," Book of Esther, Chaps. I to X.

SPECIAL TEXT: "Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandest thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there."—NEHEMIAH.