The Bible
New testement
It took 50-70 years to write
Most of the events take place in Galilee and Judea.
The new testament was written by the Apostle Paul and the early church.
The new testament was written in Greek
But now it has been written in over 2,000 languages
The new testament is about Jesus and the things he did
The gospels
Jesus' life and his teachings
Written by:
Mathew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
Acts of the early church
Letters
The early church, teaching of gods love
Revelation
Prophecy about the future
Differences
Old testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic where as the new testament was written in Greek.
The old testament was written over 1000 years where as the new testament was was written over 50-70 years.
The old testament is about the Israelite's and the new testament was written about the acts of Jesus.
The old testament has 593,000 words in it where as the new testament only has 183,000 words in it.
Literary styles
43% Narrative
33% poetry
24 Pro's discourse
Questions
Are their more stories that were in the bible that got lost in time?
Did people that believed there was messiah coming not believe that Jesus was it when people told them about it?
Main topic
Old testement
How it was divided
Law
The ten Commandments
The prophets
The writing
Timeline
Was written in 1000+ years
The old testament covered about 1600 years
Was written by a lot of people overtime
It was preserved by Jewish scribes that had a lot of rules to make perfect copies.
They had to wipe there quills before they wrote the word "God"
Each word had to be said aloud before written, no word could be written by memory
If one mistake was found on a scroll it would be threw out
The 5 Ps
Providence
God created the world, the humans and chresfort.
People
Israel-God's chosen people with a unique role.
Place
The land of Israel the promised land.
Promise
United by agreement.
Prophecy
Predictors about the future, the promised messiah.
How did the people predict that there was going to be a messiah and why did they?
I wonder, back hundreds of years ago, did some people think that anyone that believed in the bible were crazy?
Facts
The bible is the best selling book in history with over 5,000,000,000 copies
The bible has been translated into more than 2,000 languages
The word "Bible" is from the word "Biblos" which means book
The word "Testament" means agreement
The New testament was written 400 years after the Old testament