Course

Tier 1 - The Book of Jeremiah, Part One (TNK 402 T-1)

Aug 24, 2026 - Dec 28, 2026
3 credits

$395 Enroll

Full course description

Course Title: The Book of Jeremiah, Part One (TNK 402 T-1)

  • ✡Course Code: TNK 402 T-1
  • ✡Discipline: The Tanakh: Old Testament Studies (TNK)
  • ✡Prerequisites: None
  • ✡Instructor in the Video Lectures: Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum
  • ✡Length: Approximately 20 hours of video lectures with eight full modules of curriculum content
  • ✡Tier One Requirements: Tier One courses are full-semester, 16-week courses.  For this particular course, each module must be completed in two weeks.  
  • ✡ Content: This course provides a complete introduction to the Book of Jeremiah and a verse-by-verse teaching covering Jeremiah Chapters 1-31.  The remainder of Jeremiah and the Book of Lamentations are covered in a separate course (TNK 403).  This course is taught from a Messianic Jewish and Normative/Traditional Dispensational perspective.  Students will greatly appreciate the academic depth, biblical scholarship, and wealth of life application insights.

  • ✡ Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Jeremiah and Lamentations, Ariel's Bible Commentary (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2021).  
  • ✡ There are other reading materials required for this course, but we provide those at no extra cost to our students. 

Course Lecture Outline 

Module 1 – The Superscription, Preliminary Matters, and Jeremiah 1:1-19

  • Video Presentation 1a – The Superscription, Jeremiah 1:1-3 
  • Video Presentation 1b – Spiritual Conditions, Chronology, Structure, Characteristics, Theology, and Theme 
  • Video Presentation 1c - The Call of Jeremiah, 1:4-19 

Module 1 Exam

[Note: All exams are self-paced, open-note, and open-book. Students can take as long as needed on exams and are free to retake them if they are not pleased with the grade.

 

Module 2 – Jeremiah Chapters 2:1 to 4:2

  • Video Presentation 2a –Israel’s Past Faithfulness, Apostasy, and Consequences (2:1-19) 
  • Video Presentation 2b – Israel’s Dedication to Idolatry, Judgment, and Call to Repent (2:20–3:5) 
  • Video Presentation 2c – The Fate of the Ten Tribes (3:6–4:2) 

 

Module 2 Exam

 

Module 3 – Jeremiah Chapters 4:3 to 6:30

  • Video Presentation 3a – The Call to the Calamity (4:3-31)
  • Video Presentation 3b – The Corruption of Jerusalem (5:1-31) 
  • Video Presentation 3c - Recapitulation (6:1-30) 

Module 3 Exam

 

Module 4 – Jeremiah Chapters 7 to 10

  • Video Presentation 4a – Denunciation of False use of the Temple (7:1–8:3) 
  • Video Presentation 4b – The Backsliding People and Their Ruin (8:4–9:22) 
  • Video Presentation 4c – The Contrast Between YHWH and False Gods (9:23–10:25)

Module 4 Exam

 

Module 5 – Jeremiah Chapters 11 to 17

  • Video Presentation 5a – The Broken Covenant (11:1-17)
  • Video Presentation 5b – The Resulting Judgment (11:18–12:17) 
  • Video Presentation 5c – The Symbolic Actions (13:1-27) 
  • Video Presentation 5d – Prophecies Arising from the Drought (14:1–15:21) 
  • Video Presentation 5e – The Message of Jeremiah’s Lifestyle (16:1–17:27)  Module 5 Exam

 

Module  6 – Jeremiah Chapters 18 to 23:8

  • Video Presentation 6a– The Potter’s Wheel and the Broken Bottle (18:1–20:18) 
  • Video Presentation 6b– Jeremiah Against the Kings (21:1–22:30) 
  • Video Presentation 6c– The Reign of the Righteous King (23:1-8) 

Module 6 Exam

 

Module 7 – Jeremiah Chapters 23:9 to 29:32

 

  • Video Presentation 7a– Against False Prophets (23:9-40) and the Vision of the Good and Bad Figs (24:1-10) (
  • Video Presentation 7b– The Seventy Years Captivity (25:1-14) and the Cup of Wrath against the Nations (25:15-38) 
  • Video Presentation 7c– The Temple Sermon and Its Consequences (26:1-24) 
  • Video Presentation 7d– Admonition to Submit to Babylon (27:1-22) 
  • Video Presentation 7e – The Conflict with Hananiah and Jeremiah’s Letter to the Captives (28:1–29:32) 

Module 7 Exam

 

Module 8 – Jeremiah Chapters 30 and 31

  • Video Presentation 8a – The Superscript to The Wrath of God (30:1–30:25) 
  • Video Presentation 8b – God’s Love and Promises to Israel to the Building and Planting of Israel (31:2-30) 
  • Video Presentation 8c – The New Covenant to the New Jerusalem (31:31-39) 

Module 8 Exam