Reading Scripture Like a Detective

You will be assigned a coach to give you personal feedback on your assignments. To opt-out of coaching, reply to the introductory email you will receive from your coach after enrolling.

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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. Students will turn-in a course project (outlined in lesson 1) that will serve as an assessment. 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 Markup 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.

This course is currently available in English only.

Interested in helping us develop this course in other languages? Let us know.

Students of the Bible have been taking pen in hand to underline the text of Scripture and add notes to the margins of their Bibles for generations. Adding markups and notes is an effective way to slow down your reading in order to carefully observe what the text says and meditate on its meaning and implications for your life.

Biblearc’s Markup Course will equip believers with carefully composed strategies for marking up the text of Scripture. Employing these “lenses” in your study will empower you to behold far more than you might otherwise see.

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The 7 Lenses of Bible Study

Markup

Lesson 1 | Read Well

Lesson 2 | Observe Carefully

Lesson 3 | Ask Questions

Lesson 10 | Trace Themes

Lesson 8 | Explore the Context

Lesson 7 | Pursue Means & Manner

Lesson 5 | Heed the Commands

Lesson 6 | Grasp the Anchors & Aims

Lesson 9 | Identify the Structure

Lesson 4 | Discern the Core Issue

Turn-In Your Final Project

Greek Reading Self-Assessment

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Hebrew Reading Self-Assessment

How to share your work with a Biblearc group

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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

Biblearc Partners

The Apostles’ Creed

The Nicene Creed

Greek Paradigm Songs

Markup: The 7 Lenses of Bible Study

Frequently Asked Questions

Learning Resources Video Library

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Welcome!

Facebook Live

Self-Paced Tracks

Rewards

About This Course

Introducing  the Course Project

Instructor’s Work

Review

Quiz

Devotional

Take It, Read It

Be Curious

Sharpen Your Focus

Study Skill: Five W's and an H

Study Skill: Sharpen Your Questions

What’s at Stake: Your Joy

Study Skill: Five Strategies for Better Reading

Study Skill: Make Sharp Observations

What’s at Stake: All of Life

Walk in the Truth

What’s at Stake: Eternity

What’s at Stake: Insight

Study Skill: Discover Reasons Why

What’s at Stake: The Message of the Text

What’s at Stake: Stewardship

*How* Then Shall We Live?

Study Skill: Identify the Commands

Give Heed to the Context

Markup Lens: Commands+

What’s at Stake: Grace

What’s at Stake: Being “Quite Wrong”

Study Skill: Look Both Ways

Follow the Transitions

What’s at Stake: The Unity of the Bible

Study Skill : Identify the Shifts

Markup Lens: Transitions

Lift Up Your eyes

What’s at Stake: Knowing God

Markup Lens: Theology

Assignment

Study Skill: Read Theologically

Look! Look! Look!

Examine the Motives

Study Skill: Keep Digging

The Markup Module

Markup Lens: Attention Getters

Practice

Jesus’ Family

Markup Lens: Questions

Markup Lens: Topics

Markup Lens: Context

Course Survey

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