(Course Description)

This series of lessons is entitled "A Systematic Study of Bible Women” (NT part 1) will

ending with a study of Susanna. There are nearly 200 women identified in the

complete series (Old Testament and New Testament). Our purpose is to identify and

scrutinize the actions and character traits of each woman as well as her position in the

home, family and the nation where she lived. We will also study how she carried out

her duties as a servant of God or as an enemy of God. We will see how her life

influenced those around her and particularly how she used that influence for good or

evil.

We cannot gainsay the fact that the women who were mothers, wives, sisters or

daughters to their sons, husbands or fathers not only shared their experiences, but

also influenced them and others for good or evil. These women, great or lowly,

should be studied in order to understand the complete Bible picture.

Individual lessons for this class SBW-NT (Part 1) are taken from a book by the same

name, written by Coleman Overby—last printed in 1945. Because Overby’s book

contains such extensive research, it has been the basis for several larger publications

written by several modern day authors. However, rather than following those newer

works, we feel that our time would best be spent studying the original. You will not

be expected to buy anything since the book is now out of print.

My sincere hope in this lesson series is to provide more than just a cursory look at

each personality in order to help us compare the information we glean with God’s will

for us as Christian women. We will attempt, in every case, to compare what actually

happened with what should have happened.

His servant,