Wikipedia as a Bible Study Tool, Tour and Overview

About this Lesson

This is part of a collection of Lessons of Online Bible Study Tools. To go to the one link that has all of them, CLICK HERE.

Of course, you need to use this site with discernment for Bible Study preparation, but it is a wealth of great material to help you prepare for Bible teaching. The site is most useful for background history and archeology to give you in-depth background and insight into Biblical times.

I found invaluable information in the past about Ur of the Chaldees, Abraham’s birthplace—not only did it have incredible images, but the history of its discovery, fun historical tidbits such as that the main archeologist on the site, Leonard Woolley, had a young assistant, T.E. Lawrence (you can see a picture of them together) holding up an artifact and that Agatha Christie met her second husband Max Malloran on the dig at Ur.

I also learned more serious things like the wealth of the city and that it was a sophisticated, rich, urban environment, not at all like the desert backwater I’d imagined. Wikipedia also showed the royal tombs of UR and how dozens of the leader’s servants were poisoned as they stood to be buried with their king. This realistic view of the world Abraham was called out of adds greatly to understanding his story.

Wikipedia is also an excellent resource for copyright-free artwork for you to use in your lessons, communications, or personal study. Many of the incredible Biblical illustrations by James Tissot are available as copyright-free Public Domain images as well as Public Domain reproductions of many of the older Biblical Masters’ paintings, all of which work well to illustrate PowerPoint and other visual lessons we prepare.

Included in this Lesson

• This lesson has one 1080p video of the YouVersion site.