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Period of Beginnings
This period extends from
Creation?? - 2000years(BC)
and includes
-Creation
-The Fall of man
-The flood
-The confusion of languages
What is BC and AD?
Before Christ and Anno Domini(The year of our lord)
Who are the Hebrew Patriarchs
Abraham
Issac
Jacob
Joseph
Slavery and captivity of Israel
-Enslaved to Egypt
-Wilderness wanderings
-Conquest of Canaan
-Invasion of the land
-Subjection of the land
-Distribution of the land
Period of the Judges
-Israel’s Sins
-God allows the oppressors
-Israel repents
-God delivers
United Monarchy
Divided Kingdom
Babylonian captivity
Intertestamental period
what are the two methods for Interpreting the Bible and what are their characteristics
Traditional Method
-It accepts the text at face value
-assumes historicity of the Bible
-Synthesizes the material/weaves it together
-weighs/evaluates extra-biblical docs against scripture
-God communicates with creation via inspired scripture.
-Both Jesus and the disciples took the scriptures at face value
(See dead sea scrolls as well).
Modern/Liberal Method
-Approaches scriptures reliability as suspect
-This view becomes popular towards the end of the 19th century.
-Documentary hypothesis in which there were four books that the rest of the bible came from. (put together put Julius Wellhausen). There were (J, E, D, P). Those four books with letter names made up the Torah and were suspected to all have different authors.
-J Document: Any P passage where god initiates a covenant has a single author.
-E Document: Passages referring to God’s Majesty
-D Document: Collection of sermons by Moses - Scribed & handed down
-J+E: Authors deal with God’s character
-P Document:
.Judah’s been conquered by Babylonians
.Priests produce writings to maintain Jewish faith during exile.
What is the definition of the Inspiration of Scripture
God so supernaturally directed the writers of scripture that without waiving their human intelligence literary style, or personal feelings, His complete & coherent message to man was recorded with perfect accuracy, the very words of the original Scripture bearing the authority of divine authorship.
What two languages is the old Testament written in?
Hebrew and Aramaic
What is the technical definition of Autographs?
It refers to the Original Manuscripts of scripture.
What two books of the OT are in Aramaic
Daniel & Ezra
What are some OT Manuscripts?
Masiretic Texts (Oldest copies predate 1000 BC)
-Samaritan Penteteuch (Genesis through deuteronomy oldest dating to 1100 BC)
Dead Sea Scrolls
Traditional View:
Discovered in 1947 -Dated to approx. 100 AD
-earliest known texts prior dated to around 900-1000AD.
-The scroll of Isaiah that was found was complete. The only book in the collection to be so.
-Only book missing was Esther
-Comparison revealed only 13 textual variants
what happens to organic material?
-Decomposition
-Pests
-Elements
-Fade
The value and limitations of archaeology
-Problem of historical losses
-Problem of limited excavation
-Problem of non-written sources
-Problem of dating (Thing’s like carbon dating)
-Problem of history (History is written by the victor)
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Principalizing Bridge
This concept refers to the idea that we must go from the world of the Old Testament to the New Testament and ensure that we accurately interpret them for time-period between the two. There were some things, for instance, that were given to Israel and the Jews, that were not given to us now. Likewise there were some concepts or public perceptions that changed between the Old and New Testament that lead to differences in understanding each.
What percent of the bible is old testament?
73.75%
Who was the first person to organize the Bible into chapters?
Steven Langton the Archbishop of Canterbury
Who was the first to write a full translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate?
John Wycliffe in 1383 it was condemned in 1403.
Who first added verses to the bible?
1555
How many books is the bible and the old testament?
a. 66 b. 39