The Fourth Thousand Years: From David to Christ

The Fourth Thousand Years: From David to Christ by Skousen, W. Cleon. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780884941477.

In the Fourth Thousand Years we are dealing with the most neglected area of all scriptural study. I have therefore tried to identify people and places sufficiently well so that the book is self-contained and does not require the student to do extensive outside reading in order to understand what we are discussing. Too often the Old Testament has been relegated to what we might call "the childs interest level." However, no matter how interesting many of the stories in this part of the Bible may be to children, there is no doubt but what this part of the scripture is almost entirely adult level reading and therefore deserves the most serious and careful perusal by the mature student.... The questions at the end of each chapter are designed to encourage the student to make a more penetrating analysis of the subject matter. Most of the questions require specific factual answers rather than opinions. Some school of modern pedagogy frown on the use of "memory" questions but thirty years of teaching have persuaded the author that students need a generous background of factual information in order to provide a better bedrock for their opinions.