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This course is composed of ten lessons. Each lesson contains interactive questions throughout and ends with an assignment. A single lesson will take the average student three to four hours to complete. Students are invited to progress at their own pace, but we encourage you to make a plan for steady progress and to stick to that plan. Your coach will inquire as to your intended pace shortly after you begin and help keep you accountable to stay on schedule.

Path courses all end with an assessment to determine your grasp of the skills learned and material covered. Successfully passing an assessment requires a high degree of understanding and is meant to serve as a motivation to take your study seriously as well as a catalyst to improve the standard of Bible study in the Biblearc community.

Students who successfully complete the course and pass the assessment will earn Biblearc’s Discovery Certificate (see sample). They will also earn exciting rewards.

If you do not pass an assessment, you may retry after one week’s time.

When the course quotes from Scripture, it is quoting from the ESV unless otherwise noted. For more information on the ESV, visit esv.org.

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This course is currently available in English only.

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We live in a time of overwhelming availability when it comes to Bible study resources. Yet most Christians have never been properly instructed on how to utilize these aids. The result is that they either do not use them, or use them without understanding—thinking they know what they do not actually know.

This course seeks to bridge the gap. It will train you to skillfully utilize Bible features and searches, with a focus on those available through Biblearc. From following cross-references to making sense of footnotes, from thoughtfully comparing Bible translations to searching Greek and Hebrew words, this course will equip you for making the best use of the tools available, while also shedding light on what you can and cannot know without further study.

Skillfully Use Your Bible

Discovery!

Assessment

Lesson 1 | Cross-References

Lesson 2 | The Context of Cfs

Lesson 3 | Peeling Back the English

Lesson 4 | Decrypting Footnotes

Lesson 5 | Searching a Topic

Lesson 6 | Searching Theology

Lesson 7 | Searching Details

Lesson 8 | Original Language Tools

Lesson 9 | Searching the Original

Lesson 10 | Quotations & Allusions

Greek Reading Self-Assessment

Coming soon...

Hebrew Reading Self-Assessment

How to share your work with a Biblearc group

Arcing Path Course in [Language]

Arcing: curso em português

Biblearc Path Course Translation

Cours de cheminement en français sur le Arcing

Cours de cheminement en français sur le Bracketing

“Arcing in Minneapolis”—Our First-Ever Workshop!

ESV Cross-Reference System

Sandbox Demo

New Testament Bracketing

Matthew 8:23–27

Landing Page

Frequently Asked Questions

Learning Resources Video Library

Contact us

Welcome!

Facebook Live

Self-Paced Tracks

Rewards

In Understanding a Passage

Instructor’s Work

What We’ve Learned

Lesson Objectives

Assignment Instructions

Quiz

Original Language Cf Context

Refers Back Cf Context

Theme Cf Context

Adding To Our 3-Step Process

Danger: Predisposition

How Bible Translation Works

Danger: Gutting a Text

Devotional

Danger: Getting Things Wrong

Parallel Passage Cf Context

The NET2 Notes

Headings and Paragraph Divisions

Understanding Scholars

Using Footnotes

Danger: Referencing Only

Searches Gone Before Us

Why Bible Versions Differ

Practice

Word Combos

The Context of Search Results

The 3-Step Discovery Process

Danger: Wrong Question

Searches For Answers

Somewhere It Is Testified

Assignment: Your Question

Danger: Lost in Searching

Concentric Circles

Maps, Introductions, and More

Danger: Half the Story

Searching Exegetical Questions

Danger: Forgetting to Double-Check

Consider Genre

Consider Redemptive History

Course Survey

Concepts

Danger: Over-Simplifying

Assignment: Luke 3:7-14

Assignment: Luke 4:5-13

Assignment: Luke 4:20-30

Assignment: Luke 4:38-41

Assignment: Luke 5:4-11

Assignment: Luke 5:17-26

Assignment: Luke 5:27-32

Full Study

With that conceptual foundation laid, we are moving closer to understanding the reasons that Bible translations differ. But before facing that question head-on, let’s run through a brief survey of some of the common English translations of Scripture available to us.

Listen to this audio overview while you examine the chart below.


by John L. Jeffcoat III

An introduction to the history of English Bible translations for students interested in learning more.

English Bible History & Timeline

Survey of English Bible Versions

Assignment: Luke 3:23-38

Defining Your Question

Danger: Lack of Discernment

Cross-Reference Types (PORT)

Assignment: Physicians

About This Course

Searching Wide

Gloss

Lexicons

Grammar

How to Search a Word

Common Words

Uncommon Words

In Practice

Sitewide

Courses

Path courses

Markup LIVE

Grammar LIVE

Discovery! LIVE

Hebrew IV LIVE

Searching

Bible Logic

Block Diagramming

LIVE Path Courses

Path courses (inaccurate completion percentage since only completed enrollments from the old site were copied over)