Come, Follow Me / 2026 / week 1
Ezra Reads the Law to the People
Week 1 of 52
IntroductionIntroduction to the Old Testament
December 29–January 4, 2026
Before the first chapter: what kind of library the Old Testament is, how Hebrew poetry works, and why the Restoration reads it differently.
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The ancient world
The oldest complete copy of Isaiah was found by shepherds in a cave in 1947.
The Great Isaiah Scroll from the caves near Qumran, by the Dead Sea, dates to around the second century BC and contains all sixty-six chapters. Before it, the oldest complete Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament were medieval — about a thousand years later. Comparing the two showed how carefully the text had been copied in between, and also where it had not been.
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More in this library
Full lessons, topics and word studies that bear on this week's block.
Doctrinal topics
The doctrine this block raises, followed wherever it goes in the canon.
Reference chains
Passages in a deliberate order, each step earning the next.
Diagrams & maps
Drawn for this library — worth a minute even when the prose was clear.
Your notes for this week
Kept on this device, and collected in your notebook with everything else.