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The Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible

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The Old Testament is the founding document which consists of the history, origin, and civilization of Gods people Israel. It has been and continues to be a sacred scripture for both Jews and Christians and plays an increasingly influential role on their beliefs, practices, art and literature. The Jews consider the Tanak to be the Bible, also referred to as the Hebrew Bible by scholars, while Christians prefer to use the term Old Testament. Jews and Protestants agree on the content of the Tanak and the Old Testament but they arrange that content differently. The Hebrew Bible is not only referred to as the TaNaKh, an acronym made up of the Hebrew letters of words Torah, Nevi’im and Ketuvim that was first assembled and conserved as the divine …show more content…

This classic model was proposed by a German professor named Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918). Wellhausen had recognized that the biblical narratives weren’t objective eyewitness accounts of what had taken place, but rather were later writings that reflected the views of their authors. Those views, properly dated, were the basis of biblical history. The Documentary Hypothesis rejects the traditional belief that the Torah, also known as the Pentateuch, is a unified work form a single author and consecutively supports the idea that it is made up of four different sources, each a separate, coherent and independent document merged together at various points in time by a collection of editors otherwise known as redactors to form one continuous final text. It essentially attempts to take the supernatural out of the Torah and deny its Mosaic authorship. The four authors that are assigned to the various sections of the Torah are identified by the letters J, E, D and P. The sources or documents are hypothetical meaning they have yet to be proven or discovered. But the Documentary Hypothesis provides the best explanation of the data that careful analysis uncovers, data that include repetitions, similarities, inconsistencies, and …show more content…

Per the J source, the deity is known as Yahweh by Noah (8.20), Abraham (12.8); 15.7; 24.6), Isaac (25.21), Jacob (27.20; 28.13) and others. Throughout Genesis, the P source titles God as God (Elohim) or by titles such as God

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Bart D. Ehrman. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, Fifth edition, 2012 SUMMARY The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings is an 536 page, illustrated, historical guide to early Christianity and many of the early writings of the time—not just those of the New Testament Canon. As the title boasts it is used as an introduction textbook for scholars studying the New Testament.

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What is the definition of the word courage? Does a courageous person fight a hard battle, or do they stay strong mentally even when they know they might not succeed in the end. In the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme she weaves throughout the book is that courage is when you push through something even though you know that you might not succeed in the end. In the book, Lee does a great job of supporting her theme with many dynamic characters who have many courageous qualities. Mrs. Dubose, Miss Maudie, and Atticus all have courageous characteristics that are described in the book.

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Thus, his authorship be- comes important for attributing divine authority to Torah. It also lays the foundation for the belief that the Pentateuch contained one unified mes- sage because it had one divinely inspired author. Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch was assumed in Jewish Hel- lenistic, Rabbinic, and early Christian writings. Philo, a Hellenistic Jew- ish author writing in the first century of the common era, provides an ex- ample. He writes in his commentary on creation, "Moses says . . .

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The sources divided Judaism into sections that give more detailed information in regards to their traditions and beliefs. The opening line of Genesis is the best known line in any sacred text. This explains the idea that there was a beginning; before the beginning there was a god; and the cosmos, although the creation of this by god, is not got itself (Bilhartz, 25). Judaism, Christianity and Islam all consider this the central beliefs of their religion. The first line in Chapter 1 of Genesis reads “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Bilhartz, 25).

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With Christianity, the development of the Bible was a result of oral tradition and stories being passed on by generations and the guidance of the Apostles by the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, The Ten Commandments were also revealed to Moses by God and led to the essential rules within Christianity. Hinduism has expanded with more sacred texts ever since the introduction of the Vedas. Texts like the Upanishads are philosophical treatises with the aim to delve into the nature of reality, the self, and the ultimate truth of their believed supreme divinity,

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It is developed in three stages: The life and teachings of, Oral tradition and the writing of the new testament. The old testament prepares us for the life of Jesus Christ so that the new tells the stories of his life and resurrection. The new testament contains the gospels which focus on the different parts of Jesus' life, the acts of the apostle, the letters and the book of revelation. This makes a big a deal because these are not

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In Judaism, instead of the Bible, we have the Torah, which contains the first five books of the Christian Bible, and is where the teachings of God are written. The Torah only contains the Old Testament, and is also known as the complete Bible of the Jews. The first Torahs were written in Hebrew, which is a Semitic language used from 100 BC to the 20th century. Semitic is a family of languages including Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician. The Torah was then translated from Hebrew to Greek, than Greek to English.

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This Chapter begins with the explanation of why the Bible has two different names, and where these names originated from. The Bible is often referred to as Scriptures, which came from the Latin word “scriptura”, and it can be also referred to as The Bible which comes from the Greek word “Biblion”. Many religions have sacred scriptures, but only Christians and Jews refer to their sacred scriptures as the Bible or the Hebrew Bible for Jewish people. Most people tend to use this term as it is seen as more religiously neutral. The Bible itself was not always a book.

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The book of Genesis talks about the creation of the earth and humankind. It was written by many different authors, we know this because there are four different writing styles in the book, so this most likely means that there are four different authors, one of the authors was Moses. The date the book was written is approximately between 1440 and 1400 B.C., between the times Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. The word genesis means origins or beginnings. Genesis sets the scene for the rest of the Bible, telling us God's plan for his creation.

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This method looks at the biblical narrative not as a historical source that something lies behind the text. But, it looks at the narrative as a literary text that may be analysed in literary terms that is plot, characterization, point of view in narrative like other works of literature. Narrative criticism reads biblical narratives as literature or story, taking a fiction approach, which treats the text as art or poetry. They interpret the text in its final form in terms of its own story world.

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The title of Exodus comes from the Hebrew word "Elle Sh'mot" meaning "these are the names" or the Greek word "exodos" that translates to "exit/departure" . Aptly named, as Exodus is all about the Israelites' deliverance and the beginning of the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham through the Israelites' journey to the promised land. The central theme in Exodus is salvation. Exodus starts with the calling of Moses. Upon seeing a burning bush, he is filled with curiosity and approaches it to discover it is the work of God, who has chosen him to lead the Israelites to freedom.

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Have you ever thought of how we got the Bible that we have and why some churches uses other books in addition to the sixty-six in our bible? Catholic bible includes other books known as Apocrypha, then how do we know if the books in our Bible are the books God wants us to have and that other books that are not inspired by Him. In the early church, many books were moving around the churches and some of these books carried teachings which caused a lot of problems in the church. A lot of controversial issues were raised about what Christians should believe, how Christians should behave, and who gets to decide both. Some of the early church leaders gathered together to decide which books were worth to be included in the Bible, and which ones were

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Generally, Muslims only accept those parts of the Bible which are traceable to mechanical dictation and so reduce the revealed word to those parts in the Old Testament, prefaced by the words Thus says the Lord and such like sayings, and then in the Gospels to those places where it is written, Jesus said. They believe that God sent down a book to Jesus that is now lost and only fragments of His message appear in the four Gospels. In doing this they reject the biographical content of the Scriptures as of little consequence and try to make the Bible revelation to be the same as that of the Qur'an. They deny that the books contained in the Torah are the first five books of the Bible, but believe that the first five books contain fragments of the Torah, some of which are writings such as Ten Commandments and other laws directly given by God. They believe that the Pentateuch is a later rendition composed by Ezra and people of similar standing in his

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