# Biblical Studies > [!info] Academic Map · Religion & Theology > Exegesis, cosmology, and the literary world of the Old and New Testaments. Arranged by book of the Bible in canonical order, followed by notes that span the whole canon. ## Old Testament ### Genesis - [[Creation and dawn]] - [[ארץ]]: *'erets*, earth (Gen 1.1) - [[עשה]]: *asah*, make/do (Gen 1) - [[רקיע]]: *raqia*, firmament (Gen 1, day two) - [[שבע]]: *sheva*, seven/complete ### Deuteronomy - [[Listen Israel 听话]]: the Shema (Deut 6) - [[Three Old Testament Tithes]]: the Torah's tithe laws ### Amos - [[Plowman Overtakes the Reaper]]: Amos 9.13 ## New Testament ### Matthew - [[Brood of Vipers]]: Matt 3 and 23 - [[Heaven and Earth in Jesus]]: Matt 4.17 (with Eph 1.10 and Phil 2.9–10) ### Acts - [[Ephesus Religion and Paul]]: Acts 19 ### Romans - [[Introduction to Romans]]: setting, the Romans debate, Wright's four-part structure, themes, resources - [[Wright on Romans]]: the whole letter, then chapter by chapter ### 1 Corinthians - [[Paul's Shema Prayer]]: 1 Cor 8.6 ### The Prison Letters (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon) - [[Prison Letters of Paul]]: overview and order - [[Biblical Principles for Speech]]: Eph 4.29 - [[Philemon]] ### 1 Thessalonians - [[Epistle of First Thessalonians]] ## Across the canon ### Cosmology - [[Biblical Cosmology]] - [[Three-tier Biblical Cosmology]] - [[Biblical Existence]] - [[Biblical uncreation]]: Exodus plagues, the Flood, Jeremiah 4 - [[Light of God]]: Genesis, Psalms, John, the prophets - [[Heaven and Earth Verses by Mackie]]: key texts from both Testaments ### Reading Scripture - [[Four Senses of Scripture]] - [[Typology of Christ]] - [[Female Crucifixion]] ### Text and manuscripts - [[Codex Vaticanus]] ## Sources feeding this map - **[[N. T. Wright]]** (for Romans): - *Into the Heart of Romans* (2023) - *The New Testament in Its World*, with Michael F. Bird (2019) - *The New Testament for Everyone*, 3rd ed. (2023): introduction to Romans - *Paul: A Biography* (2018) - *Paul for Everyone: Romans*, Parts 1–2 (2004) - **[[Tim Mackie]]**, [[BP Heaven and Earth]]: cosmology notes - **[[Matthieu Pageau]]**, [[The Language of Creation - Pageau|The Language of Creation]]: cosmology - **[[Jonathan Pageau]]** and **[[James Orr]]**, *The Symbolic World Podcast*: the four senses of Scripture --- *In-app live index (Dataview — does not render on Obsidian Publish):* ```dataview LIST FROM #disc/biblical-studies SORT file.name ASC ```