New PDF release: Journeying with the Old Testament

By Nicoletta Gatti

ISBN-10: 3034310064

ISBN-13: 9783034310062

This e-book is an introductory examine of the outdated testomony and it really is according to the lesson taught for a few years through the authors in various Universities in Ghana. it really is an interactive and didactic paintings that gives an leading edge method of the learn of the Hebrew Bible. via interpreting chosen passages from the Bible and doing urged workouts as a way of reinforcing what has been learnt, the reader will in attaining an outstanding wisdom of the outdated testomony and may gather the aptitude of analyzing and reading extra texts. every one bankruptcy starts with a presentation of a map of the adventure, the goals to be completed, a precis and a last part that is helping the coed to guage his/her comprehension. This ebook is usually a contextualized textual content. The final bankruptcy is devoted to the previous testomony in Africa and the connection among the African Continent and the Bible, giving the reader the chances of buying talents to interpret the outdated testomony from African views.

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These are terms that evolved inChristian circles. In the Jewish tradition, the people refer to the collection o f thesacred writings as TaNaK. TaNaK is composed from the initial letter o f the three divi­ sions o f the Sacred Scripture o f the Hebrews. These divisions are: ■/ Töräh T (initial letter) S Neb î’îm N (initial letter) S Ketûbîm K (initial letter) 51 T h e vowel ‘a was introduced between the consonants TNK for pro­ nunciation purposes. T he Arrangement o f the Books in the Hebrew Canon T h e Hebrew Canon is composed o f 39 books, organized in three divi­ sions.

W hat does it say about the function o f the Scripture? W hat is the M eaning o f Canon? Now that you have learnt Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, let us take a look at what Canon means. qanu, and Hebrew 'qanah\ which origi­ nally meant ‘reed’. T h e word was transliterated into Greek (kanon), Latin and modern languages to mean a measure’. T he Greeks transposed the original meaning o f the word to a stand­ ard o f living’, a norm for life’, and by so doing included both mean­ ings o f the term: a list and a rule o f faith with regard to the Scriptures (Harrison 2 0 0 4 , 260).

As many Jews abroad no longer spoke Hebrew but Greek, it therefore becomes nec­ essary to have their Scriptures translated into Greek. O ne such un­ dertaking was in Alexandria, in Egypt, a great centre o f learning at the time. According to a legend recorded in the Letter o f Aristeas, 72 scholars were charged to translate the Pentateuch for the king Ptolemy II Philadelphus o f Alexandria in the 3 rd century It seems much more plausible that the translation was made by the Jews themselves for those living in the diaspora (cf.

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