RLAB Support Site

This support site was created for the Old Testament History course in the RLAB class at Smithfield United Methodist Church (SUMC). The starting date for the class was January 20, 2008. Various support materials and information for the course are provided on this site.

Main Book

The main textbook for all classes in this course is the Christian Bible. The English Standard Version (ESV) is the translation most commonly used by the teacher in the class. However, any of the translations in the Revised Standard Version (RSV) tradition are fine (as are any translations) for use. Thus, the suggested translations to use are:

English Standard Version - ESV
Revised Standard Version - RSV
New Revised Standard Version - NRSV

Old Testament History

The secondary textbook is Old Testament Survey 2nd Edition by Paul R. House and Eric Mitchell (copyright 2007). People taking the Old Testament History Class are encouraged to get and read this book also. Coordinated reading assignments will be provided during the course.

*Old Testament History Notes Part two: 2 Samuel – Malachi
*Old Testament History Images Part two: Images
These lecture notes are used while teaching Old Testament History classes. They are being developed for the current class while the class is being taught. The notes are a work in progress and are not necessarily coherent reading, such as, an article would be.
(Download both of these "Old Testament History" files. Right click on each file. In the pop-up menu select "Save Target As...", "Save Link As..." or the appropriate selection for your Web browser. Save the files to a folder of your choice. You may then double-click otHistory2.hjt or open the file by any other means that you choose. The two files should be kept together in the same folder.)
(The Treepad Viewer program should be installed before opening the "Old Testament History Notes" file.)

Bible History Notes
Notes on the Bible stressing historical issues and analyses. Bible History Notes is a PDF file that may be viewed in your current web browser or downloaded and viewed in a PDF reader program, such as, Adobe Reader.
John Wesley's Conversion (Commented)
An excerpt from John Wesley's Journal describing his journey to trusting Jesus and his conversion experience. Comments accompany most of the paragraphs in the excerpt. These comments are shown in pop up windows when the comment icon

is clicked.
John Wesley's Conversion (Highlighted)
An excerpt from John Wesley's Journal describing his journey to trusting Jesus and his conversion experience. Comments accompany most of the paragraphs in the excerpt. These comments are shown in yellow highlighted text just before the paragraph to which they apply.
John Wesley's Doctrinal Statement
The Articles of Religion are an official doctrinal statement of American Methodism. John Wesley abridged for the American Methodists the Thirty-Nine Articles of Anglicanism, removing the Calvinistic parts among others. The Articles were adopted at a conference in 1784 and are found in paragraph 103 of the United Methodist Church Book of Discipline. They have remained relatively unchanged since 1808 (save for a few additional articles added in later years).

Download Treepad Viewer Installer
The main lecture notes, Old Testament History Notes, and some of the other files available for downloading were developed using the outliner program Treepad. "Treepad Viewer" is a free program that allows you to view, read and print Treepad files. Treepad files are ".hjt/.tpz", ".tpd", and ".htmhjt" files. The Treepad files on this site use ".hjt" and ".tpz" file types.

The Treepad Installer is a program that will install Treepad Viewer to the directory of your choice. You may safely use the default settings when installing the program. By default, the installer will create a "TreePad Viewer" group/folder in the "Programs" folder of your "Start" menu. You may start Treepad Viewer from this programs folder or you may double click the ".hjt" files that you download from this site.

When you download Treepad files from this site, you may download them to or put then in any file folder in your computer, including on your "Desktop".

Treepad Viewer is a Windows program that will work with the following versions of Windows Windows 7, XP, Vista, 200x, NT, 9x, ME, all 64 bit Windows and Linux-Wine.