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Bible The Good Book Holy Scriptures God’s Word. Old Testament Survey. Before looking at the Bible itself, we need to discuss how it came to be How did these 39 books come to be the OT? Why discuss this at the outset? To strengthen faith - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Bible
The Good Book
Holy Scriptures
God’s Word
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Old Testament Survey Before looking at the Bible itself, we need to
discuss how it came to be– How did these 39 books come to be the OT?
Why discuss this at the outset?– To strengthen faith– To prepare you to deal with the Dan Brown’s of
the world (The Davinci Code)
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What Christianity & Judaism Believe about the Old Testament
The Bible was NOT…– Delivered by angels (or fall from Heaven)– Dictated by God to a human being (Islam)– A purely human production
The Bible IS…– Inspired by God– Correct in what it says about God, humanity, and the
world– A complex and diverse collection of books
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How Did We Get Our Bible? The OT alone may well have taken over 1,000
years! The Process was complex There are big gaps in our knowledge of the
process This means, to be honest, there is a lot of
speculation and guesswork Be wary of the scholars who think they have
it all figured out!
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Let’s take an example: David & Goliath (1 Samuel 17)
Event Oral Retelling Written Account
Updating/Adding/Editing Copying Canon
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Let’s Take a Closer Look Event Takes Place (or God acts or speaks) Passed on by story telling (oral tradition) Written down (perhaps by scribes in king
Solomon’s court?) As time goes by documents are added to,
updated, edited, rearranged, etc.• Ancient Israelites did not have same concept we
do about books, author and copy-rights!• Written on scrolls (new stuff could be stitched on)
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Aleppo CodexMasoretic Text
10th century CE
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The Dead Sea Scrolls - Discovered in 1947
The oldest copies of portions of the OT ever found (date from around 100 BCE)
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Cave at Qumran in southern Israel where some of the Dead sea scrolls were found
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Let’s Take a Closer Look Scrolls are lost!! (and found)• King Josiah (620 BCE) 2 Kings 22• Some are lost to us forever (Annals of the Book of Kings)
2 Chronicles 24:27 Exile! 587 BCE (got a little more careful with
their documents) Post-exile – got really serious about keeping,
reading and explaining the sacred scrolls (see Nehemiah 8:1-2)
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Let’s Take a Closer Look Copying • Sometime between 400 – 200 BCE adding to and
changing the scrolls stopped • Scribes began to very carefully make copies
Canonization• “Canon” - a standard to measure by• Also about 400 – 200 BCE began to recognize
certain books a authoritative
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Role of Inspiration?
• This information caused a crisis of faith for me in college
• Before college I had the simple belief that God inspired certain authors to write and that’s exactly what we have today (except for a few copying errors)
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Role of Inspiration?
• The making of the Bible was a very messy process involving messy human beings
• Where was God in this messy production?• What if some scribe just
made it all up?
• Wouldn’t God take better care of His Word?
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What if God was not intimidated by our messy
processes?
?What if God was not only able to overcome but also
to use our messes to bring about the Bible?
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Which requires a bigger God?
A God who inspired a few authors?
OR
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A God Who inspired and superintended…
• Events & Oral Re-tellings• Authors & Writings• Various ways of transmission• Changes, additions to texts• Communities who developed and safe- guarded documents (or lost them!)
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A God Who inspired and superintended…
• Folks involved in the process who did not always agree
• Copying (mistakes were made)
• Canonization
• People of faith who use the Bible in public and private settings
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A God who is not afraid to enter our mess as a man
(Jesus)
will not be in the least incapable of seeing to it
that the Book for His people emerges from a
long, often messy process
This ought to make us more in awe of God (and
the Bible) not less!