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What is a Mini-Series?
A Mini-Series is a small subset of lessons from a major series which covers a particular subject or book. The class numbers will be in reference to the major series rather than the mini-series.
Douglas Petrovich

Douglas Petrovich

Role: Guest speaker

Dr. Douglas Petrovich is a native Ohioan, has been involved in Christian service and various educational institutions since the 1980s, and he has taught over 30 different courses. Dr. Petrovich was ordained in a non-denominational church in 1998, and he has served as a pastor in California and Siberia, Russia.

He was invited by Slavic Gospel Association to lead the founding of a seminary in Akademgorodok (Russia), called Novosibirsk Biblical-Theological Seminary, where he served as Academic Dean and Assistant to the President for 10 years. He later served as Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Shepherds Theological Seminary in Cary, North Carolina. He has also taught at the University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University.

While he has taught courses in ancient history, Egyptology, biblical studies, theology, and pastoral studies, his two areas of greatest specialization are biblical history and the exegesis of the biblical languages. He has studied/taught Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Middle Egyptian, and Late Egyptian. He is an historian, archaeologist, epigrapher, and Egyptologist, and he has participated in archaeological digs at Hazor (Israel), Shiloh (Israel), and Tell Tayinat (ancient Syria).

His groundbreaking research on the reading of inscriptions of the earliest alphabetic script led to the publication of his book, The World’s Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script, and his publications can be found on his academia.edu webpage.

He and his wife, Sherri, have three children.

Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Passage: Genesis 1
Series: 2019 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 14 mins 36 secs
Additional information about the documentary Dr. Petrovich mentioned, Is Genesis History? is available here.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Passage: Genesis 47
Series: 2019 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 22 mins 8 secs
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Passage: Genesis 47-48
Series: 2019 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 15 mins 55 secs

Dr. Petrovich's article that was recently published, which he mentioned at the beginning of the class, is available by clicking here.

Click here for Dr. Petrovich's page on academia.edu.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Series: 2019 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 31 mins 17 secs
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Passage: Joshua 11 & Judges 4
Series: 2021 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 2 mins 27 secs

The Levantine Archaeological Ages handout Dr. Petrovich used in this class is available in the Notes link below.

Dr. Petrovich's new book, "Origins of the Hebrews: New Evidence of Israelites in Egypt from Joseph to the Exodus" is expected to be available for purchase from the publisher, New Creation in November 2021. It should be available on Amazon.com shortly thereafter.

New Creation is also reprinting his first book, “The World's Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script”, which is also expected to be available in November 2021.

Dr. Petrovich also has a peer-reviewed paper related to this class entitled “The Dating of Hazor's Destruction in Joshua 11 by Way of Biblical, Archaeological, and Epigraphical Evidence” available for download from his academia.edu site.

Thursday, February 17, 2022
Passage: Joshua & Judges
Series: 2022 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 2 mins 25 secs

The Levantine Archaeological Ages handout Dr. Petrovich referred to in this class is available in the Notes link below.

During this Bible class Dr. Petrovich mentioned the Associates for Biblical Research website and the Bible and Spade magazine. Note that they currently have Dr. Petrovich's new book, Origins of the Hebrews, for sale.

Sunday, February 20, 2022
Passage: Philippians 2
Series: 2022 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 3 mins 14 secs

During this Bible class Dr. Petrovich mentioned his new book, Origins of the Hebrews, which is for sale

on the Associates for Biblical Research website.

Thursday, February 24, 2022
Passage: Joshua 2 & Joshua 6
Series: 2022 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 9 mins 16 secs
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Passage: Genesis 1
Series: 2022 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 21 mins 8 secs
Thursday, March 03, 2022
Series: 2022 Douglas Petrovich
Duration: 1 hr 5 mins 6 secs
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