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The Old Testament

Took place in Canaan

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Ketuvim/Writing

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

Nev'im/Prophets

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

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

Torah/Law

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Duetoronomy

Begining of the world

God making different languages, dividing humanity against each other forever

The first Israelites

Adam and Eve/Original Sin

Written in Hebrew

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

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

Then people started writing it down using papyrus paper

The Dead Sea Scrolls.

date back 1000 years

Found in a cave by a shepherd boy

The 5 P's

Prophecy

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

Promise

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

Place

Where the Israelites lived, Israel.

People

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

Providence

God creates and He cares for creation.

Its the story of the people of israel

Literary styles of the bible

Narrative

Narrative is stories

Make up 43% of the Bible

Poetry

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

Poetry uses a lot of metaphors

Make up 33% of the Bible

Prose discourse

Things like speeches, letters, or essays.

Make up 24% of the Bible

The New Testament

Written by the Apostles

Written to encourage new christians

Sections

Letters

ex. Corinthians, Romans etc.

Letters written to different churches.

Acts of the Apostles

First church was small meetings in houses

Start of the early Church

4 Gospels

Jesus' life in 4 different perspectives

John

Wrote a more Personal and Theological version

Luke

Wrote Greek concerns

Mark

Wrote Roman Concerns

Mathew

Wrote Jewish concerns

Took place in Palestine

took 50-70 years to write

Written 400 years after the Old testament

Written in Greek