Journey Through Nach: Navigating Nach with Insights and Perek Summaries (2 volumes) By Daniel Fine and Chaim Golker Adir Press Brooklyn, 2014 805 pages

This thoroughly researched work allows the reader to familiarize himself with major events, characters and themes of Nach. Spanning from the entry into Eretz Yisrael with Yehoshua, all the way to prophetic visions of the Messianic era and the Third Temple, and filled with background information and flowing summaries of every perek of the Nevi'im and Kesuvim, this work can help any reader master Nach through the eyes of our Sages. 

Journey Through Nach features the following:

• Chapter summaries on every chapter in Nach, with insights of commentaries interwoven throughout
• Over 100 divrei Torah on themes and concepts of Nach
• Charts, Maps, Timelines, and a reference to every Haftarah
• A selection of comprehensive essays explaining some of the more misunderstood areas in Nach including: Witchcraft, King Shaul's suicide, hereditary punishment, predicting Moshiach's arrival, free will, and King David's marriage with Batsheva.

Includes endorsements by leading rabbinic authorities and a forward by Rabbi Zev Leff.

In Talmud study, we differentiate between studying in depth (iyun) and covering ground (bekiut). The “New School” is providing iyun on an unprecedented level. The OU’s successful Nach Yomi program (www.ou.org/torah/nach-series/nach-yomi) has motivated many to tackle the difficult task of bekiut, studying every verse of the Bible. Daily Nach UK and Daily Nach Israel are similar independent programs. The text that was born from these programs, Journey Through Nach, is a guide to gaining familiarity with every book and chapter of Nach.

The authors summarize every chapter clearly and briefly. Additionally, they add occasional divrei Torah from classical commentaries and mussar greats, as well as in-depth essays in the back of the book on topics of Jewish law and thought that emerge from the Biblical text. Remarkably, this is a series from the traditional beit midrash, not the academy or the “New School.” One might call it Chareidi or at least emerging from the Chareidi yeshivah world. Apparently, the revolution of Orthodox Tanach study has spread beyond its initial audience.