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