OT Chronological Puzzle

Journal entry 07.23.07M

Yesterday I began work on the OT Chronological puzzle! What a task--so good for me to do myself. There is no chart I can find that has put together the OT in the order I'd like to teach it. So I work hard.

I began today just before 9am and worked for hours on the Divided Kingdom puzzle! Piecing together Kings and Chronicles with Joel, Jonah, Amos, Micah, Hosea and Isaiah. Then I came to the problem of Isaiah, which I still can't solve (do you break at ch. 9 or 10 before the time of Hezekiah?...should I teach chapter 11-66 all in one chunk?). I compared sources to get a good teaching order--correct dates and a message flow that makes sense.

Now I've worked just as many hours (only to break for lunch) on the puzzle of Judah standing alone. Zephaniah and Jeremiah go together at first, but only during Josiah's reigh. Then you have the question of Nahum and Habakkuk --when also to teach it. We go back and forth between 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles and match prophecies with Jeremiah.

I've got my Guenter prophets notes and keep going on marking trails through my Bible doing more study on the prophets like I've always wanted to. I'm eating it up like a banquet, and I have the luxury of a whole entire day alone at home. It's like a monestary.

Then after flipping and reading and marking and studying, trying to figure out Jeremiah--I finally laugh with relief when I read from the EBC:
"No commentator, ancient or modern, has seriously posited a chronological arrangement of [Jeremiah's] prophecies."
I laughed at that statement! Ha! So, we go through a maze?
It continues:
"It is too much, however, to conclude that the book is a hopeless maze."

I'm so intrigued by Jeremiah and after reading about how he is the unique, significant, historical prophet who is so closely paralleled to Jesus, I can't wait to learn more!