Unit 2: Our Story Students will be able to understand the
composition and interpretation of Scripture
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The study of the Bible is absolutely necessary to the
development of the Christian life. The facts which the Scriptures
present are basis of faith in the Christ and in the whole series of
providential events which prepared the way for his final disclosure
of the life and purposes of God.
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Definitions: Bible: derived from the Greek word biblos, which
means book. Used as a title it means The Book, so called by the way
came into use among believers after the Bible was completed.
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The titles, Old Testament and New Testament, also came into use
after the completion of the Bible The word Testament coming from
the Latin word Testamentum which is the translated word for
covenant. The Old Testament referring to the covenant between God
and .? The New Testament referring to the covenant between God
and.?
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The Old Testament The first five books are commonly grouped
under the title, The Pentateuch. Pentateuch is a Greek word which
means a five-fold book. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and
Deuteronomy
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The Jewish people call it "Torah" (instruction) which is often
rendered in English by "Law" The books contain a chronological and
theological progression: The re-establishment of God's rule on
earth through man over evil and over all creation.
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Ancient tradition, and many fundamentalists today, name Moses
as the author of the Pentateuch. Why would people question this?
Evidence suggests that most of the Pentateuch was written hundreds
of years after Moses death. The stories being passed down by oral
tradition.
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Next we have sixteen historical books, containing a connected
history of Israel from the death of Moses to the restoration after
the Babylonian captivity. Two of these, First and Second
Chronicles, repeat large portions of the history given in other
books, but they also furnish much additional information. RuthEzra
Tobit
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Next are the seven books of wisdom of poetry which are placed
without regard to their time of composition.
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Nearly every one indicates in the opening verses the time of
its composition by giving the names of the kings under whom its
author lived and prophesied. The last division of all is composed
of eighteen books which are styled prophetical