The Bible

Written in Greek

Written 400 years after the Old testament

took 50-70 years to write

Took place in Palestine

Sections

4 Gospels

Mathew

Wrote Jewish concerns

Mark

Wrote Roman Concerns

Luke

Wrote Greek concerns

John

Wrote a more Personal and Theological version

Jesus' life in 4 different perspectives

Acts of the Apostles

Start of the early Church

First church was small meetings in houses

Letters

Letters written to different churches.

ex. Corinthians, Romans etc.

Written to encourage new christians

Written by the Apostles

Literary styles of the bible

Prose discourse

Make up 24% of the Bible

Things like speeches, letters, or essays.

Poetry

Make up 33% of the Bible

Poetry uses a lot of metaphors

3 different types of Poetry, songs, wisdom and prophets.

Narrative

Make up 43% of the Bible

Narrative is stories

Its the story of the people of israel

The 5 P's

Providence

God creates and He cares for creation.

People

A group of people specifically chosen by God, the Israelites.

Place

Where the Israelites lived, Israel.

Promise

The promise that we will be united with god in a covenant

Prophecy

Warnings against injustice and evil/Predictions about the future (The Messiah)

The Dead Sea Scrolls.

Found in a cave by a shepherd boy

date back 1000 years

First was an oral tradition, people would speak it to each other

Then people started writing it down using papyrus paper

The Old Testament covers around 4000 years of history, or more.

Written in Hebrew

TaNak

Torah/Law

Begining of the world

Adam and Eve/Original Sin

The first Israelites

God making different languages, dividing humanity against each other forever

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Duetoronomy

Nev'im/Prophets

The Israelites enter the promised land. They start to forget God, Israel is divided in 2 and falls, the Israelites are taken into captivity in Babylon

Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Book of the 12

Ketuvim/Writing

Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles

Took place in Canaan