Sixty-six overviews, one per book, in the order the books come in. Each one covers what the book is, how it is put together, how its date is argued, and where — if anywhere — the external record touches it.
These are not devotional introductions. Each overview treats the book as a document: who could have written it, when, on what evidence, and what survives outside the Bible that bears on it. Where the honest answer is that nothing outside the Bible bears on it, the overview says so and explains why — that is the ordinary situation for most ancient literature, and it is worth understanding rather than working around.
Books whose names appear without a link have not been written yet. They are listed anyway, because an index that hides its gaps is misreporting the size of the archive.
The Law
- Genesis
- Exodus
- Leviticus
- Numbers
- Deuteronomy
History
Poetry and wisdom
- Job
- Psalms
- Proverbs
- Ecclesiastes
- Song of Songs
The major prophets
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Lamentations
- Ezekiel
- Daniel
The minor prophets
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micah
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
- Zephaniah
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
The gospels and Acts
The letters of Paul
- Romans
- 1 Corinthians
- 2 Corinthians
- Galatians
- Ephesians
- Philippians
- Colossians
- 1 Thessalonians
- 2 Thessalonians
- 1 Timothy
- 2 Timothy
- Titus
- Philemon
The general letters
Apocalypse
23 of 66 overviews written. The rest are scheduled; the ones without a link are not written yet, and this page says so rather than hiding them.
How dating and attestation are handled here is set out in the method notes: how a text is dated, what external attestation means, and the five source layers. Every source cited anywhere on this site appears, with its permanent identifier and the date it was last checked, in the verification log.