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Week 4 of 4 week class that looks at the Bible. This week focuses on how the church complied the Bible.TRANSCRIPT
The Bible
God’s Grand Story: Act 3Week 4
What is the Bible?
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart - it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that benefits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice - it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we can even know to ask.
from Thoughts and Reflections by Rich Mullins
What is the Bible?
• A working definition:
A collection of writings containing the record and revelation of God’s interaction with man.
… of God’s interaction with man.
• Actual people• Actual places• Actual problems• Actual encounters• Actually God
New TestamentBook Date Book Date
JamesGalatiansThessaloniansMarkMatthewCorinthiansRomansLuke ActsColossiansEphesians
45-49495150-6050-6055-586061616161
PhilippiansPhilemon1 Peter1 TimothyTitusHebrews2 Peter2 TimothyJudeJohn1,2,3 JohnRevelation
6363-6463-6663-6664-68666768-8085-9085-9090-95
Early Church Fathers
• Clement of Rome (95-97)• Polycarp (110-135)• Justin Martyr (165)• Ireanaeus (130-202)• Clement of Alexandria (150-
215)• Jerome (340-420)• Augustine (354-430)
MARTIN LUTHER
• Augustinian monk• Ninety-Five Theses (1517)• Translated Bible into German• Study Notes
William Tyndale
• English Scholar (1517-1521)• Translated the Bible into English• Directly from Hebrew and Greek
Texts• Introduced New Words in English
– Jehovah– Passover– Scapegoat
• Made popular - Atonement
Biblical Criticism
• Scientific approach to the Bible
• Divided into two approaches– Higher Criticism – composition
and history– Lower Criticism (literary) –
original or “correct” readings
Biblical Criticism
• Old Testament– Masoretic Text – Hebrew Text – 7-10
AD– Septuagint – Greek OT – 3 BC
• New Testament– Vulgate – Latin Translation of Bible –
4 AD– Papyri– Codices– Minuscule – Byzantine Lectionaries
Dan Wallace Video can be found at: http://youtu.be/unlMULCNDUU
Summary
• The Bible is a collection of writings containing the record and revelation of God’s interaction with man.
• We can trust God and His revelation.