Scripture and Tradition Bible Studies

Wisdom 10-19 forms the second half of the book, which takes a unique direction. The first half in chapters 1-9 talked about the great pursuit of righteousness, wisdom, and immortality. Now it takes those truths and speaks of how wisdom saves the righteous and punishes the wicked throughout salvation history beginning with the creation of Adam himself throughout the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 4, "Wisdom's Salvation (Chs. 10-19)" from Dr. Nick's four-part course, "The Wisdom of Solomon: Love Righteousness." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Solomon warns kings and rulers that all authority comes from God and must be exercised to promote God's laws and holiness. If they love righteousness and seek wisdom, then they'll reign for ever in God's Kingdom. Then, he uses his own love pursuit of eternal Wisdom as an example they should follow. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 3, "Seek Wisdom (Chs. 6-9)" from Dr. Nick's four-part course, "The Wisdom of Solomon: Love Righteousness." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Chapters 1-5 of Wisdom makes the argument that the two ways presented before each of us—the way of righteousness versus the way of unrighteousness—have eternal consequences, either spiritual death or immortality in God. No other book in the Old Testament develops the theology of life after death than does Wisdom. Its message is picked up and developed often in the New Testament teachings of Jesus and St. Paul. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 2, "Seek Immortality (Chs. 1-5)" from Dr. Nick's four-part course, "The Wisdom of Solomon: Love Righteousness." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Lesson 1 lays the foundation for this incredible book. We'll review it's place in the Wisdom Literature corpus, it's theological connections to the other Solomonic books, it's authorship and dating, the trifold structure, the most important themes and theology, and finally it's inclusion in the disputed "deuterocanonical books". Enjoy this sample from Lesson 1, "Introducing the Book of Wisdom" from Dr. Nick's four-part course, "The Wisdom of Solomon: Love Righteousness." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

The Song of Songs allegorically expresses the soul's longing for intimacy many times, but the strange thing is that such intimacy doesn't occur, not even at the end. Instead, the bride cries out again, "Make haste my beloved," because she wants to be with him. This finale is crucial for understanding the Church's longing for Christ when she says, "Come, Lord Jesus!" (Rev 22:20). Enjoy this sample from Lesson 3, "Make Haste, My Beloved (Song 5-8)" from Dr. Nick's course, "Song of Songs: A Life of Divine Intimacy." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

This lesson examines the first half of the book according to the predominate interpretive views of the groom representing God/Messiah and the bride representing Israel/Church, and by extension each human soul. Such a take makes sense of all the various images and language used throughout the book leading us to proclaim along with the bride, "I will seek him whom my soul loves." Enjoy this sample from Lesson 2, "I Will Seek Him Whom My Soul Loves (Song 1-4)" from Dr. Nick's course, "Song of Songs: A Life of Divine Intimacy." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

The Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon, is an incredibly powerful book. At first glance, one might conclude it's exclusively about the love between a husband and wife. However, the book is concerned with a much more powerful intimacy, that between God and his people. This book has shaped the spiritual writings of some of the greatest saints in Catholic Tradition. Learn to read it as they did, and your life will be changed forever. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 1, "Introducing the Song of Songs" from Dr. Nick's course, "Song of Songs: A Life of Divine Intimacy." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

The second half of Ecclesiastes develops the various observations of the first half of the book by shifting to analyze the various mysteries of life that we all experience. He challenges the dictates of cultural wisdom, such as the retribution doctrine, and concludes that though life is mysterious, everything is in the hand of God, whom we should trust and fear. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 3, "The Mysteries of Life (Eccles 7-14)" from Dr. Nick's course, "Ecclesiastes: A Life of Detachment." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Ecclesiastes opens with the author's most famous, and often repeated, thesis: "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!" What's more, the book argues that there is nothing to be gained for all man's toil under the sun. Lesson 1 examines the author's many examinations and demonstrations to prove his point, especially in the context of the fall of humanity in Genesis 3. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 2, "The Vanities of Life (Eccles 1-6)" from Dr. Nick's course, "Ecclesiastes: A Life of Detachment." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

The first lesson is an important step for laying the foundation of this incredibly philosophical book. It will briefly examine Wisdom Literature in general, the important literary and theological meaning of it's title, authorship, structure, key themes and typology. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 1, "Introducing the Book of Ecclesiastes" from Dr. Nick's course, "Ecclesiastes: A Life of Detachment." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

After embracing Lady Wisdom, it's time to listen to her teaching. Proverbs has so much to say about living a virtuous life according to the fear of the Lord. This lesson will review select verses for 10 different topics including marriage, parenting, friendship, discernment, diligence, wealth, pride and humility, anger, controlling the tongue, and temperance. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 3, "Lady Wisdom's Teachings (Prov 10-30)" from Dr. Nick's course, "Proverbs: A Life of Wisdom." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Proverbs centers around one of the Bible's super key themes—"The Two Ways"—in an extremely unique manner. The Way of Righteousness is personified by Lady Wisdom, and the Way of Unrighteousness is personified by Lady Folly. We are called to make a choice between these two women; the former brings joy and happiness in the Fear of the Lord, the latter brings misery and death. Let us embrace Lady Wisdom! Enjoy this sample from Lesson 2, "Embracing Lady Wisdom (Prov 1-9, 31)" from Dr. Nick's course, "Proverbs: A Life of Wisdom." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

The Book of Proverbs within the Wisdom Literature Collection of the Old Testament is understandably beloved by many for its short, pithy, yet memorable wise sayings for navigating all aspects of life. Let's define what "wisdom" is first, and to whom it is addressed, then breakdown important topics about the book itself for a better appreciation of its message. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 1, "Introducing the Book of Proverbs" from Dr. Nick's course, "Proverbs: A Life of Wisdom." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Job's three friends have proven worthless and unwise indeed. So, after proclaiming an incredible hymn of wisdom and its origin in God, Job demands that God answer him in powerful courtroom language that God will answer in ways that Job couldn't quite anticipate. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 4, "God Meets Job in Court (Job 28-42)," from Dr. Nick's course, "Job: Steadfast in Suffering." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

After seven days of silence, Job finally opens his mouth to speak. He doesn't curse God, as Satan said he would, but he does curse his own life and the day of his birth. This begins a series of dialogues in which Job's three friends try to find answers to his suffering. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 3, "Seeking Answers to Suffering (Job 3-27)," from Dr. Nick's course, "Job: Steadfast in Suffering." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Job 1-2 is called is prologue for the books and it forms the crucial backstory to why Job suffers as he does. Job is described as one of the wealthiest, but also most righteous people, living. He is truly a role model of virtuous non-Israelites.  Enjoy this sample from Lesson 2, "Satan's Accusations and Assaults," from Dr. Nick's course, "Job: Steadfast in Suffering." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Job is one of the greatest works in the Bible, and in world literature. This first lesson covers such important introductory topics to the Book of Job such as title, biographical details of Job's person, authorship, dating, structure, key themes and typology. Job is such an important book that it's worthwhile laying the foundation for the work that lies ahead in our study. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 1, "Introducing the Book of Job," from Dr. Nick's course, "Job: Steadfast in Suffering." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

This final lesson ends with a tremendous, celebratory shout of joy and praise! After all the ups and downs, victories and defeats, as well as blessings and curses for Israel during these past five books, the Psalter calls upon everything that breaths to "praise the Lord"! That is the perfect way to end our journey through the Psalms!   Enjoy this sample from Lesson 16, "Psalms 137-150," from Dr. Nick's course, "Psalms: Lift Up Your Hearts." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Psalms 120-136 form the 2nd Cycle of the 5th Book of the Psalter. Within this collection is the very special "Psalms of Ascent" that pilgrims would sing as they enter the Holy City of Jerusalem. These psalms are extremely typological of our own earthly pilgrimage to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 15, "Psalms 120-136," from Dr. Nick's course, "Psalms: Lift Up Your Hearts." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish

Psalms 113-119 form what is called the Egyptian Hallel Psalms, or the Passover Collection. They were sung by Christ himself at the Last Supper before he fulfilled each of them so powerfully in the Passion. Enjoy this sample from Lesson 14, "Psalms 113-119," from Dr. Nick's course, "Psalms: Lift Up Your Hearts." Anyone can join our community of students and stream the entire audio lesson and full course (and other courses too!) whenever they wish. 🚨Please visit — 💻 https://www.scriptureandtradition.com 💻 — to join our community of students, attend live lectures, and access my growing audio library of Bible studies with detailed accompanying lesson notes 📖! 🔥 You can also catch me on: ✅ www.youtube.com/c/nicholaslebish ✅ www.tiktok.com/@scriptureandtradition ✅ www.instagram.com/drnicholaslebish