Knowledge Library

Bible Knowledge Library

The studies on Audela stay clean on purpose. A chapter study is not the place to empty a lexicon onto the page. But the work behind a study should be open to you, and if you want to go further you should have somewhere to go. These are the shelves: language, history, geography, archaeology, customs, and the reference works that gather them. None of it is Scripture. All of it exists to send you back to Scripture.

21 shelves drawing on 27 named reference works, each with its uses and its limits stated, and 92 entries you can search in one place.

Search the library

Type the word, name, place or theme you have just met in the text. The library searches every shelf, every named reference work and every concept entry at once, and tells you what each result is before you open it.

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92 entries on these shelves

The order of authority

Everything in this library sits under the biblical text. When a reference work and the passage disagree, the passage decides. When Scripture answers a question plainly, we let Scripture answer first, and when Scripture does not, we say so instead of filling the silence.

  1. 1Scripture
  2. 2Biblical cross references
  3. 3Original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek
  4. 4Historical, cultural, geographical and archaeological background
  5. 5Trusted biblical reference works
  6. 6Explanation and application

Every entry in the library is labelled with the rung it stands on, and each label opens into the strands behind the entry: the passages it rests on, the cross-references that test it, the Hebrew or Greek it glosses, the historical evidence it reports, the interpretation it offers for weighing, and whatever it leaves open.

How Audela weighs a source

The shelves

  • Bible Dictionaries

    Short entries on the names, places, objects and terms of Scripture.

  • Bible Encyclopedias

    Long articles on books, doctrines, peoples and institutions.

  • Hebrew Studies

    The language of the Old Testament: roots, verbs, and what they can and cannot prove.

  • Greek Studies

    The language of the New Testament, as ordinary people actually spoke it.

  • Aramaic Studies

    The everyday language of the exile and of Jesus' own street.

  • Strong's Concordance

    Every word of the text indexed and numbered back to the original.

  • Biblical Geography

    The land: its ridges, valleys, roads and rainfall, and how they shaped the story.

  • Biblical Archaeology

    What the ground has turned up, and what it can honestly show.

  • Biblical History

    The empires, rulers and movements the biblical writers lived under.

  • Biblical Timelines

    When things happened, where the dates are firm, and where they are not.

  • Biblical Maps

    The journeys, kingdoms and campaigns drawn on the ground they happened on.

  • Biblical Customs and Culture

    Marriage, mourning, harvest, hospitality, honour: the world the text assumes.

  • Biblical People

    The men and women of Scripture, told from the passages that carry them.

  • Biblical Places

    Cities, rivers, mountains and regions, and what happened at each.

  • Biblical Objects and Symbols

    Lamp, altar, bread, blood, water, vine: the pictures God chose.

  • Messianic Prophecies

    The promise of Christ as it was given, and as the New Testament reads it.

  • Cross References

    Scripture interpreting Scripture, which is the oldest study tool there is.

  • Word Studies

    One word followed through Scripture, carefully and with its limits shown.

  • Bible Introductions

    How each book came to be, and how the Bible came to us.

  • Biblical Themes

    Covenant, kingdom, exile, sacrifice, glory: the threads that hold Scripture together.

  • Study Tools

    The practical instruments: commentaries, topical indexes, and how to use them well.

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One deep study, every week.

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