There are exactly four hundred stories in the Tanach. We recommend working through these stories with your family or group. Not sure how?
First do the story. Either tell it in your own words, or read it while the others act it out and mime the quotes! And then work through the five suggested questions below.
This list supplements the Tanach Hero's Journey course, especially Lesson #3. It's also available as a printable PDF.
1. What do you like, and what bothers you, about this story?
2. Who would you be, or what can you relate to, in this story?
3. What is this story telling you about God, or Mashiach?
4. What is this story telling you to do?
5. Who could you tell this story to?
1. The Creation - Genesis 1
2. Creation of man and woman - Genesis 2
3. Fall of humanity - Genesis 3
4. Cain and Abel - Genesis 4
5. Corruption of mankind - Genesis 6
6. The flood - Genesis 7
7. The flood subsides - Genesis 8
8. Covenant of the rainbow - Genesis 9
9. Tower of Babel - Genesis 11
10. Abram journeys to Egypt - Genesis 12
11. Abram and Lot - Genesis 13
12. War of the Kings - Genesis 14
13. Abram promised a son - Genesis 15
14. Abram and Hagar - Genesis 16
15. Abram and the covenant of circumcision - Genesis 17
16. Birth of Isaac promised - Genesis 18
17. Doom of Sodom - Genesis 19:1-29
18. Lot is debased - Genesis 19:30-38
19. Abraham's treachery - Genesis 20
20. Isaac is born and Ishmael is driven out - Genesis 21:1-21
21. Abraham's covenant with Abimelech - Genesis 21:22-34
22. Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22:1-19
23. Death and burial of Sarah - Genesis 23
24. Bride for Isaac - Genesis 24
25. Abraham's Death - Genesis 25:1-11
26. Rebekah has twins - Genesis 25:19-26
27. Esau sells his birthright - Genesis 25:27-34
28. Rebekah is taken - Genesis 26:1-11
29. Isaac's conflict with Philistines - Genesis 26:12-33
30. Jacob deceives Isaac - Genesis 27
31. Jacob's dream - Genesis 28
32. Jacob meets Rachel - Genesis 29:1-20
33. Laban's treachury - Genesis 29:21-30
34. Jacob's sons - Genesis 29:31-30:24
35. Jacob prospers - Genesis 30:25-43
36. Jacob goes home - Genesis 31
37. Jacob wrestles - Genesis 32
38. Jacob meets Esau - Genesis 33
39. Rape of Dinah - Genesis 34-35:8
40. Jacob is named Israel - Genesis 35:9-15
41. Rachel and Isaac die and Esau moves - Genesis 35:16-28, 36:6-8
42. Joseph's dreams - Genesis 37:2-11
43. Joseph's betrayal - Genesis 37:12-36
44. Judah and Tamar - Genesis 38
45. Joseph's success and imprisonment - Genesis 39
46. Joseph interprets dreams - Genesis 40
47. Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dream - Genesis 41:1-32
48. Joseph is made ruler - Genesis 41:33-57
49. Joseph's brothers sent to Egypt - Genesis 42
50. Joseph's brothers return to Egypt - Genesis 43
51. Joseph's brothers are brought back - Genesis 44
52. Joseph reveals himself - Genesis 45:1-24
53. Joseph is reunited with his father - Genesis 45:25-46:1-7 and 46:28-34
54. Joseph's family settles in Goshen - Genesis 47:1-12
55. Results of the famine - Genesis 47:13-26
56. Israel's last days - Genesis 47:27-33, 48
57. Jacob blesses his sons - Genesis 49
58. Jacob and Joseph die - Genesis 50
59. Israel enslaved - Exodus 1:1-14, 2:23-25
60. Midwives defy Pharaoh - Exodus 1:15-21
61. Birth of Moses - Exodus 1:22-2:10
62. Moses escapes to Midian - Exodus 2:11-22
63. Moses called - Exodus 3
64. Moses resists the call - Exodus 4:1-17
65. Moses goes to Egypt - Exodus 4:18-31
66. Israel's labour increased - Exodus 5-6:9
67. Aaron's rod becomes a serpent - Exodus 6:28-13
68. Water turned to blood - Exodus 7:14-25
69. Frogs - Exodus 8:1-15
70. Gnats and flies - Exodus 8:16-32
71. Livestock die - Exodus 9:1-7
72. Boils - Exodus 9:8-12
73. Hail - Exodus 9:13-35
74. Locusts - Exodus 10:1-20
75. Darkness - Exodus 10:21-29
76. Death of the birstborn - Exodus 12:21-33
77. Israel leaves Egypt - Exodus 12:34-41, 13:17-22
78. Red Sea divided - Exodus 14
79. Bitter waters - Exodus 15:22-27
80. Manna - Exodus 16
81. Water from the rock - Exodus 17:1-7
82. Battle with Amalek - Exodus 17:8-16
83. Jethro - Exodus 18
84. Israel arrives at Sinai - Exodus 19:1-15
85. Ten Commandments - Exodus 19:16-25, 20
86. Covenant affirmed - Exodus 24
87. Golden calf - Exodus 32
88. Moses intercedes - Exodus 33
89. Covenant renewed - Exodus 34
90. Tabernacle started - Exodus 25:4-36:7
91. Tabernacle finished and erected - Exodus 39:32-40
92. Nadab and Abihu die - Leviticus 10
93. Israel leaves Sinai - Numbers 10:11-13, 29-36
94. Sanhedrin appointed - Numbers 11
95. Aaron and Miriam criticize Moses - Numbers 12
96. Israel spies out Canaan - Numbers 13
97. Israel rebels - Numbers 14
98. Korah's rebellion - Numbers 16
99. Aaron's rod sprouts - Numbers 17
100. Miriam dies and Moses disobeys - Numbers 20:1-13
101. Aaron dies amidst conflict with Edom and Arad - Numbers 20:14-21:3
102. Bronze serpent - Numbers 21:4-9
103. Conflict with Amorites - Numbers 21:21-35
104. Balak calls Balaam - Numbers 22:1-21
105. Balaam's donkey - Numbers 22:22-38
106. Balaam blesses Israel - Numbers 22:39-24:25
107. Phinehas stops plague - Numbers 25
108. Women ask for inheritance - Numbers 27:1-11
109. Moses commisions Joshua - Numbers 27:12-23
110. Israel kills Midian - Numbers 31
111. Reuben and Gad settle in Gilead - Numbers 32
112. Moses's Last Will and Testament - Deuteronomy 31:7-30
113. Moses dies - Deuteronomy 32:48-52, 34:1-12
114. Rahab hides the spies - Joshua 2
115. Israel crosses the Jordan - Joshua 3
116. Israel sets up memorial stones - Joshua 4
117. Israel is circumcised - Joshua 5:1-12
118. Conquest of Jericho - Joshua 5:13-6
119. Sin of Achan - Joshua 7
120. Ai defeated - Joshua 8
121. Gibeon deceives Israel - Joshua 9
122. Joshua defeats five kings - Joshua 10
123. Caleb requests Hebron - Joshua 14:6-15
124. Ephraim and Manasseh complain - Joshua 17:14-18
125. Reuben and Gad build altar - Joshua 22
126. Justice for Adoni-Bezek - Judges 1:1-7
127. Othniel win's Achsah's hand - Judges 1:11-15
128. Capture of Bethel - Judges 1:22-26
129. Israel serves Baal - Judges 2
130. Ehud assassinates obese king Eglon - Judges 3:12-30
131. Deborah and Barak defeat Sisera and Jael kills him - Judges 4
132. Gideon called - Judges 6:1-24
133. Gideon destroys altar - Judges 6:25-32
134. Gideon chooses 300 - Judges 6:33-7:8
135. Gideon defeats Midian - Judges 7:9-25
136. Gideon routes Midian - Judges 8:1-21
137. Gideon makes ephod - Judges 8:22-28
138. Abimelech's conspiracy - Judges 8:30-9:57
139. Jephthah - Judges 11
140. Jephthah defeats Ephraim - Judges 12:1-7
141. Birth of Samson - Judges 13
142. Samson's wedding - Judges 14
143. Samson burns Philistine's crops - Judges 15
144. Samson is betrayed - Judges 16:1-21
145. Samson's revenge - Judges 16:22-31
146. Micah's idolatry - Judges 17
147. Dan seeks territory - Judges 18
148. Concubine degraded - Judges 19
149. Israel responds - Judges 20:1-17
150. Civil war - Judges 20:18-48
151. Benjamin survives - Judges 21
152. Elkanah's wives - 1 Samuel 1:1-18
153. Birth of Samuel - 1 Samuel 1:19-2:11
154. Samuel and Eli's sons - 1 Samuel 2:12-36
155. Samuel is called - 1 Samuel 3
156. Philistines take the ark - 1 Samuel 4
157. God is provoked - 1 Samuel 5
158. Ark Returned - 1 Samuel 6:1-7:2
159. Samuel's ministry - 1 Samuel 7:3-17
160. Israel demands a king - 1 Samuel 8
161. Saul searches for donkeys - 1 Samuel 9:1-24
162. Samuel anoints Saul - 1 Samuel 9:25-10:13
163. Saul made king - 1 Samuel 10:14-27
164. Saul defeats Amonites - 1 Samuel 11:1-13
165. Saul's kingship confirmed - 1 Samuel 11:14-13:1
166. Saul disobeys Samuel - 1 Samuel 13:2-14
167. Jonathan defeats Philistines - 1 Samuel 13:15-14:23
168. Saul's oath - 1 Samuel 14:24-46
169. Israel massacres Amalek - 1 Samuel 14:47-15:9
170. Samuel rebukes Saul - 1 Samuel 15:10-35
171. Samuel anoints David - 1 Samuel 16:1-13
172. David serves Saul - 1 Samuel 16:14-23
173. Goliath challenges Israel - 1 Samuel 17:1-16
174. David accepts the challenge - 1 Samuel 17:17-39
175. David kills Goliath - 1 Samuel 17:40-58
176. Jonathan and David - 1 Samuel 18:1-11
177. Saul turns against David - 1 Samuel 18:12-30
178. David protected from Saul - 1 Samuel 19:1-17
179. David flees to Samuel - 1 Samuel 19:18-24
180. David and Jonathan covenant - 1 Samuel 20:1-23
181. David and Jonathan part - 1 Samuel 20:24-42
182. David takes consecrated bread - 1 Samuel 21:1-10
183. David flees to Gath and Moab - 1 Samuel 21:10-22:5
184. Priests slain - 1 Samuel 22:6-23
185. David delivers town - 1 Samuel 23:1-14
186. Saul pursues David - 1 Samuel 23:15-29
187. David spares Saul's life - 1 Samuel 24
188. Nabal and Abigail - 1 Samuel 25
189. David again spares Saul's life - 1 Samuel 26
190. David flees to Philistines - 1 Samuel 27
191. Saul and the Medium - 1 Samuel 28
192. Philistines mistrust David - 1 Samuel 29
193. David defeats Amalekites - 1 Samuel 30
194. Saul and sons slain - 1 Samuel 31, 1 Chronicles 10
195. David mourns Saul - 2 Samuel 1
196. David made king of Judah - 2 Samuel 2:1-11
197. Civil war - 2 Samuel 2:12-3:1
198. Abner joins David - 2 Samuel 3:6-25
199. Joab murders Abner - 2 Samuel 3:26-39
200. Ish-bosheth murdered - 2 Samuel 4
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