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  "title": "Hebrew Bible Archive",
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      "title": "Hebrew Bible Full Class",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://bibleproject.com/classroom-alpha/education-videos/session-1-what-earth-hebrew-bible/\"\u003eClass link\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://paynepride.com:8010/documents/162\"\u003eClassroom notes (Must be on home network)\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 id=\"01-the-shape-of-the-hebrew-bible\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003e01 The Shape of the Hebrew Bible\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"session-1-what-on-earth-is-the-hebrew-bible\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eSession 1: What on Earth is the Hebrew Bible?\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#session-1-what-on-earth-is-the-hebrew-bible\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis class is not so much a survey of the HB, it is Tim\u0026rsquo;s attempt to distil the\nmost helpful things for understanding it in a consumable way for laypeople.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chunk of this is the other people giving some of their own background. One\nlady said something that might be helpful for ministry - \u0026ldquo;Maybe that thing that\nI saw as \u0026lsquo;you don\u0026rsquo;t love me\u0026rsquo; is \u0026lsquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t know how to love you\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003ehow to love\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaybe that thing that I saw as \u0026lsquo;you don\u0026rsquo;t love me\u0026rsquo; is \u0026lsquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t know how to love you\u0026rsquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition danger\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eChristian coping strategy for the Olt Testament\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHero-example model\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStories get isolated and distilled down into a simple moral model, where the hero is just the hero.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVeggie-Tales is uber-guilty of this nonsense\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere\u0026rsquo;s something correct about this - but the oversimplification usually comes out of a massive re-writting of the stories, then anyone raised on those versions of the story is scaldalized when they read it for real\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoltical-authority source\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical parties hijacking \u0026ldquo;The Bible says X about Y\u0026rdquo; as a means to harvest authority from a book that many people claim is authoritative.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheology answer book model\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTreating the Bible like a dictionary of key/value pairs where keys are questions and values are simple answers.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis ignores narrative, and general literacy.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe instinct may be right - the Bible should profoundly shape my view of everything, but it isn\u0026rsquo;t simple\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspirational-heart-warming model\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVerse-a-day calendars\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJermiah 29:11\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition warning\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eWarning\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre we imposing a set of questions that are foreign to what the authors are\ntrying to communicate? do we need to set our cultural agendas aside to just\nlisten?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA result of asking the wrong questions is the common story of people\u0026rsquo;s faith being dismantled \u003cem\u003eby reading the Bible\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eDL Baker - Two Testaments - One Bible\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most fundamental questions which has faced theology and the\nChurch in every age\u0026hellip; is whether or not Christianity also needs an Old\nTestament. Is the Old Testament to be thrown away as obsolete, or pre-\nserved as a relic from days of yore, or treasured as a classic and read by\nscholars, or used occasionally as a change from the New Testament, or\nkept in a box in case it should be needed some day? Or is the Old Testa-\nment an essential part of the Christian Bible, with continuing validity along-\nside the New Testament? —\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"session-2-how-jesus-and-the-apostle-readtheir-bibles\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eSession 2: How Jesus and the Apostle ReadTheir Bibles\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#session-2-how-jesus-and-the-apostle-readtheir-bibles\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bible most often refers to itself as \u003cem\u003ethe Writings\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eRoad to Emmaus\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesus confronts a couple guys walking to Emmaus after he is resurrected and\nmore or less calls them idiots/fools for not understanding that the\nWritings point to an annointed king who will suffer death for the sake of\nredemption. He\u0026rsquo;s recognized by them once their eyes are opened then he vanishes\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeird stuff\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"paul-and-timothy\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePaul and Timothy\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#paul-and-timothy\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul assumes when writing to Timothy that he, and probably believers in general, are in a community of people who are regularly learning about Yahweh through the Scriptures \u003cem\u003eas a family\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition quote\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003e2 Timothy 3:15-16\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026hellip; and that from childhood you ahve known the sacred writings which are\nable to give you the wisdom that leas to salvation through faith which is\nin Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for\nteaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition success\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eSuccess\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Paul, the \u003ccode\u003eScriptures\u003c/code\u003e here are our OT, the Hebrew Bible. For Paul, the HB\nis entirely \u003cem\u003ewisdom literature\u003c/em\u003e that leads to salvation through Jesus\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question of \u0026ldquo;What are the Scriptures?\u0026rdquo; is covered in the next session\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo answer the question \u0026lsquo;How do we read the HB?\u0026rsquo; we have to ask the question\n\u0026lsquo;Whose book is the HB?\u0026rsquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"session-3-shape-of-the-scriptures\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eSession 3: Shape of the Scriptures\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#session-3-shape-of-the-scriptures\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ccode\u003eOld Testament\u003c/code\u003e is the Christian term for a set of writings that comprise about\n3/4 of the Christian Bible. The authors themselves though refer to those\nwritings as \u003ccode\u003ethe Scriptures\u003c/code\u003e. One time it is called \u003ccode\u003ethe Old Covenant\u003c/code\u003e by Paul\n, but he\u0026rsquo;s talking about Synagogue readings of the Torah portion in synagogues.\nTHe phrase \u003ccode\u003eHebrew Bible\u003c/code\u003e is a modern term that is a bit more neutral.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, what is our Bible?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition quote\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eLuke 24:25-27\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of\nheart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary\nthat the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”\n27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in\nall the Scriptures the things concerning himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoses and the Prophets\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"tanak\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eTaNaK\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#tanak\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJweish reference to the books in our OT, in the Hebrew Bible, but the arangement is different\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eTaNaK\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eT = Torah (first 5 books)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eN - Nevi\u0026rsquo;im (Prophets: Joshua - Kings) [Christians often call these the \u0026lsquo;historial books\u0026rsquo;]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eK - Ketuvim\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTorah\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePentateuch\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/th\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003c/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGenesis - Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers Deuteronomy\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGenesis - Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNevi\u0026rsquo;im - The Prophets\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistory\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cem\u003eFormer Prophets\u003c/em\u003e \u003cbr/\u003e Joshua - Judges - Samueal - Kings\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJoshua - Judges - Ruth \u003cbr/\u003e 1-2 Samuel - 1-2 Kings \u003cbr/\u003e 1-2 Chronicles \u003cbr/\u003e Ezra - Nehemiah - Ester\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cem\u003eLater Prophets\u003c/em\u003e \u003cbr/\u003e Isaiah - Jeremiah - Ezekiel \u003cbr/\u003e Hosea - Joel - Amos - Obadiah - Jonah - Micah - Nahum - Habakkuk - Zephaniah - Haggai - Zechariah - Malachi\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cbr/\u003e Job - Psalms - Proverbs - Ecclesiastes - Song of Solomon\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKethuvim - The Writings\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProphets\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePsalms - Job - Proverbs \u003cbr/\u003e Ruth - Song of Songs - Ecclesiastes - Lamentations - Esther [The Megillot] \u003cbr/\u003e Daniel - Ezra - Nehemiah - Chronicles\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eIsiah - Jeremiah - Lamentations \u003cbr/\u003e Ezekiel - Daniel \u003cbr/\u003e Hosea - Joel - Amos - Obadiah - Jonah - Micah - Nahum - Habakkuk - Zephaniah - Haggai - Zechariah - Malachi\u003c/td\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003c/tbody\u003e\n\u003c/table\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition quote\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eLuke 11:49–51 (ESV) \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e49 Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and\napostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’ 50 so that the blood\nof all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged\nagainst this generation, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of\nZechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell\nyou, it will be required of this generation.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy would Jesus pick these two events? Abel is murdered on page 4, Zechariah is\nmurdered in the last part of Chronicles, which in the TaNaK is significant\u0026hellip;\nJesus is saying that \u003cem\u003eall the prophets from the beginning of the Scriptures to\nthe end\u003c/em\u003e\u0026hellip; All the prophets from A-Z so to speak\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eScriptures\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Books\u0026rdquo; as we know it, bound papers with writing on it, called a \u0026lsquo;codex\u0026rsquo;\nwasn\u0026rsquo;t a thing until a couple hundred years post-Jesus\u0026hellip; so when the\nauthors say \u0026ldquo;The Scriptures\u0026rdquo; we need to keep in mind that Jews had the\nscriptures in their minds and hearts, not on paper (save for a couple very\nexpensive scrolls). So the structure of the scriptures is also apart of the\nJewish being\u0026hellip; This interaction with the Scriptures is \u003cem\u003every very very\ndifferent than how we interact with the Bible\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003e4QMMT\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;The scrolls of Moses, the words of the prophets, and of David.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003ePhilo of Alexandria\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe laws and the oracles given by inspiration through the prophets and the\nPsalms, and the other scrolls whereby knowledge and piety are increased and\ncompleted\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDe Vita Contemplatetiva, 25\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"melito-of-sardis\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eMelito of Sardis\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#melito-of-sardis\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarly 200s\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne of the earliest Christians to talk about the books/scrolls of Christian scriptures\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummarizes \u003cem\u003eChristian ordering\u003c/em\u003e of the Hebrew Bible with some logic\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFoundation narrative of the Pentateuch\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistory\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoetry\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProphets then point forward to the coming Messiah, Jesus, and the NT writings\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"session-4-seams-between-texts-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eSession 4 - Seams between Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#session-4-seams-between-texts-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAround 100-200 AD there was a split in the Jewish community over things like\nhow the Temple and sacrifices were to be run, etc. A group got kicked out, so\nthey grabbed some scrolls and went to start what we\u0026rsquo;d think of as a Monastic\ncommunity. Qumran community is where they went, and the scrolls this group\nmanaged are called the Dead Sea Scrolls.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOut of DSS we have some of the oldest biblical scrolls, they have their own\nwritings and liturgies since they were all priests basically too.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scrolls were hidden in caves before the Romans marched on Qumran. They were\nfound in the 1940s by a bunch of shepherds. A few showed up online for sale and\nthat\u0026rsquo;s how we found out about their exitence\u0026hellip;. These scrolls give us\npre-Christian Jewish Bible nerds\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQumran community didn\u0026rsquo;t know about Jesus - they thought the Messiah would be a\nman called \u003cem\u003eThe Teacher of Righteousness\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"scroll-making\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eScroll-making\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#scroll-making\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe DSS preserved for us, not only ancient biblical texts, but also the method\nby which scrolls were created. They were well-preserved papyrus that was\nstiched together - literal stitches. We also have obvious additions from Qumran\ncommunity as well as notes from priests and corrections from missed\ntranscribing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"our-bible\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eOur Bible\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#our-bible\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe DSS scrolls, being the oldest stitched together set of scrolls, teach us\nhow scrolls and collections of ancient holy texts were put together. We need to\nkeep this in mind when we think about where our Christian Bible came from\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beginning and ending of our books might/are filled with hyperlinks that\ncall a reader\u0026rsquo;s mind back to other stories. It\u0026rsquo;s the way of linking context and\nstories to one another before the writings are in a codex\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHyperlinks - language/syntax that remind a reader of antoher scroll - help us\nunderstand the structure of the Hebrew Bible\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eA favorite quote from Tim\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, you can see I\u0026rsquo;m interested in a historical question of like the\ncollection [Hebrew Bible] was produced by a group of people. What did they\nmean by it? And we can actually know a lot about what they meant and locate\nthem and read it the way they wanted us to read it, and pick up what\nthey\u0026rsquo;re saying. And, lo and behold, you know, I hope to convince you\nthat—and this is all pre-Christian—what\u0026rsquo;s happening here and what this all\npoints to and means, fits hand in glove with how Jesus and Paul and the\napostles talk about these texts.\nSo that\u0026rsquo;s different from saying nobody\nknew what these texts meant. The events of Jesus happen, and then we go\nreread it, and it has a whole new meaning that no one has ever imagined. It\nseems to me what actually happened in history was a little more interesting\nand complicated than that.  [17:30-18:21]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\n[Class link](https://bibleproject.com/classroom-alpha/education-videos/session-1-what-earth-hebrew-bible/)\n[Classroom notes (Must be on home network)](http://paynepride.com:8010/documents/162)\n\n# 01 The Shape of the Hebrew Bible\n\n## Session 1: What on Earth is the Hebrew Bible?\n\nThis class is not so much a survey of the HB, it is Tim's attempt to distil the\nmost helpful things for understanding it in a consumable way for laypeople.\n\nA chunk of this is the other people giving some of their own background. One\nlady said something that might be helpful for ministry - \"Maybe that thing that\nI saw as 'you don't love me' is 'I don't know how to love you'\"\n\n!!! note \"how to love\"\n\n    Maybe that thing that I saw as 'you don't love me' is 'I don't know how to love you'\n\n!!! danger \"Christian coping strategy for the Olt Testament\"\n\n    1. Hero-example model\n        * Stories get isolated and distilled down into a simple moral model, where the hero is just the hero.\n        * Veggie-Tales is uber-guilty of this nonsense\n        * There's something correct about this - but the oversimplification usually comes out of a massive re-writting of the stories, then anyone raised on those versions of the story is scaldalized when they read it for real\n\n    2. Poltical-authority source\n        * Political parties hijacking \"The Bible says X about Y\" as a means to harvest authority from a book that many people claim is authoritative.\n\n    3. Theology answer book model\n        * Treating the Bible like a dictionary of key/value pairs where keys are questions and values are simple answers.\n        * This ignores narrative, and general literacy.\n        * The instinct may be right - the Bible should profoundly shape my view of everything, but it isn't simple\n\n    4. Inspirational-heart-warming model\n        * Verse-a-day calendars\n        * Jermiah 29:11\n\n!!! warning \"\"\n\n    Are we imposing a set of questions that are foreign to what the authors are\n    trying to communicate? do we need to set our cultural agendas aside to just\n    listen?\n\nA result of asking the wrong questions is the common story of people's faith being dismantled _by reading the Bible_\n\n!!! note \"DL Baker - Two Testaments - One Bible\"\n\n    One of the most fundamental questions which has faced theology and the\n    Church in every age... is whether or not Christianity also needs an Old\n    Testament. Is the Old Testament to be thrown away as obsolete, or pre-\n    served as a relic from days of yore, or treasured as a classic and read by\n    scholars, or used occasionally as a change from the New Testament, or\n    kept in a box in case it should be needed some day? Or is the Old Testa-\n    ment an essential part of the Christian Bible, with continuing validity along-\n    side the New Testament? —\n\n## Session 2: How Jesus and the Apostle ReadTheir Bibles\n\nThe Bible most often refers to itself as _the Writings_\n\n!!! note \"Road to Emmaus\"\n\n    Jesus confronts a couple guys walking to Emmaus after he is resurrected and\n    more or less calls them idiots/fools for not understanding that the\n    Writings point to an annointed king who will suffer death for the sake of\n    redemption. He's recognized by them once their eyes are opened then he vanishes\n\n**Weird stuff**\n\n### Paul and Timothy\n\nPaul assumes when writing to Timothy that he, and probably believers in general, are in a community of people who are regularly learning about Yahweh through the Scriptures _as a family_\n\n!!! quote \"2 Timothy 3:15-16\"\n\n    ... and that from childhood you ahve known the sacred writings which are\n    able to give you the wisdom that leas to salvation through faith which is\n    in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for\n    teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness\n\n!!! success \"\"\n\n    For Paul, the `Scriptures` here are our OT, the Hebrew Bible. For Paul, the HB\n    is entirely _wisdom literature_ that leads to salvation through Jesus\n\nThe question of \"What are the Scriptures?\" is covered in the next session\n\n**To answer the question 'How do we read the HB?' we have to ask the question\n'Whose book is the HB?'**\n\n## Session 3: Shape of the Scriptures\n\n`Old Testament` is the Christian term for a set of writings that comprise about\n3/4 of the Christian Bible. The authors themselves though refer to those\nwritings as `the Scriptures`. One time it is called `the Old Covenant` by Paul\n, but he's talking about Synagogue readings of the Torah portion in synagogues.\nTHe phrase `Hebrew Bible` is a modern term that is a bit more neutral.\n\n\u003e So, what is our Bible?\n\n!!! quote \"Luke 24:25-27\"\n\n    25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of\n    heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary\n    that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”\n    27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in\n    all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.\n\n\u003e Moses and the Prophets\n\n### TaNaK\n\nJweish reference to the books in our OT, in the Hebrew Bible, but the arangement is different...\n\n!!! note \"TaNaK\"\n\n    1. T = Torah (first 5 books)\n    2. N - Nevi'im (Prophets: Joshua - Kings) [Christians often call these the 'historial books']\n    3. K - Ketuvim\n\n    | **Torah** | **Pentateuch** |\n    | --- | --- |\n    | Genesis - Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers Deuteronomy | Genesis - Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy |\n    | **Nevi'im - The Prophets** | **History** |\n    | *Former Prophets* \u003cbr/\u003e Joshua - Judges - Samueal - Kings | Joshua - Judges - Ruth \u003cbr/\u003e 1-2 Samuel - 1-2 Kings \u003cbr/\u003e 1-2 Chronicles \u003cbr/\u003e Ezra - Nehemiah - Ester |\n    | *Later Prophets* \u003cbr/\u003e Isaiah - Jeremiah - Ezekiel \u003cbr/\u003e Hosea - Joel - Amos - Obadiah - Jonah - Micah - Nahum - Habakkuk - Zephaniah - Haggai - Zechariah - Malachi | **Poetry** \u003cbr/\u003e Job - Psalms - Proverbs - Ecclesiastes - Song of Solomon |\n    | **Kethuvim - The Writings** | **Prophets** |\n    | Psalms - Job - Proverbs \u003cbr/\u003e Ruth - Song of Songs - Ecclesiastes - Lamentations - Esther [The Megillot] \u003cbr/\u003e Daniel - Ezra - Nehemiah - Chronicles | Isiah - Jeremiah - Lamentations \u003cbr/\u003e Ezekiel - Daniel \u003cbr/\u003e Hosea - Joel - Amos - Obadiah - Jonah - Micah - Nahum - Habakkuk - Zephaniah - Haggai - Zechariah - Malachi |\n\n!!! quote \"Luke 11:49–51 (ESV) \"\n\n    49 Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and\n    apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’ 50 so that the blood\n    of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged\n    against this generation, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of\n    Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell\n    you, it will be required of this generation.\n\n\u003e Blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah...\n\nWhy would Jesus pick these two events? Abel is murdered on page 4, Zechariah is\nmurdered in the last part of Chronicles, which in the TaNaK is significant...\nJesus is saying that _all the prophets from the beginning of the Scriptures to\nthe end_... All the prophets from A-Z so to speak\n\n!!! note \"Scriptures\"\n\n    \"Books\" as we know it, bound papers with writing on it, called a 'codex'\n    wasn't a thing until a couple hundred years post-Jesus... so when the\n    authors say \"The Scriptures\" we need to keep in mind that Jews had the\n    scriptures in their minds and hearts, not on paper (save for a couple very\n    expensive scrolls). So the structure of the scriptures is also apart of the\n    Jewish being... This interaction with the Scriptures is _very very very\n    different than how we interact with the Bible_\n\n!!! note \"4QMMT\"\n\n    \"The scrolls of Moses, the words of the prophets, and of David.\"\n\n!!! note \"Philo of Alexandria\"\n\n    The laws and the oracles given by inspiration through the prophets and the\n    Psalms, and the other scrolls whereby knowledge and piety are increased and\n    completed...\n\n    - De Vita Contemplatetiva, 25\n\n### Melito of Sardis\n\n- Early 200s\n- One of the earliest Christians to talk about the books/scrolls of Christian scriptures\n- Summarizes _Christian ordering_ of the Hebrew Bible with some logic\n  - Foundation narrative of the Pentateuch\n  - History\n  - Poetry\n  - Prophets then point forward to the coming Messiah, Jesus, and the NT writings\n\n## Session 4 - Seams between Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls\n\nAround 100-200 AD there was a split in the Jewish community over things like\nhow the Temple and sacrifices were to be run, etc. A group got kicked out, so\nthey grabbed some scrolls and went to start what we'd think of as a Monastic\ncommunity. Qumran community is where they went, and the scrolls this group\nmanaged are called the Dead Sea Scrolls.\n\nOut of DSS we have some of the oldest biblical scrolls, they have their own\nwritings and liturgies since they were all priests basically too.\n\nThe scrolls were hidden in caves before the Romans marched on Qumran. They were\nfound in the 1940s by a bunch of shepherds. A few showed up online for sale and\nthat's how we found out about their exitence.... These scrolls give us\npre-Christian Jewish Bible nerds...\n\nQumran community didn't know about Jesus - they thought the Messiah would be a\nman called _The Teacher of Righteousness_\n\n### Scroll-making\n\nThe DSS preserved for us, not only ancient biblical texts, but also the method\nby which scrolls were created. They were well-preserved papyrus that was\nstiched together - literal stitches. We also have obvious additions from Qumran\ncommunity as well as notes from priests and corrections from missed\ntranscribing.\n\n### Our Bible\n\nThe DSS scrolls, being the oldest stitched together set of scrolls, teach us\nhow scrolls and collections of ancient holy texts were put together. We need to\nkeep this in mind when we think about where our Christian Bible came from\n\nThe beginning and ending of our books might/are filled with hyperlinks that\ncall a reader's mind back to other stories. It's the way of linking context and\nstories to one another before the writings are in a codex\n\n\u003e Hyperlinks - language/syntax that remind a reader of antoher scroll - help us\n\u003e understand the structure of the Hebrew Bible\n\n!!! note \"A favorite quote from Tim\"\n\n    So, you can see I'm interested in a historical question of like the\n    collection [Hebrew Bible] was produced by a group of people. What did they\n    mean by it? And we can actually know a lot about what they meant and locate\n    them and read it the way they wanted us to read it, and pick up what\n    they're saying. And, lo and behold, you know, I hope to convince you\n    that—and this is all pre-Christian—what's happening here and what this all\n    points to and means, fits hand in glove with how Jesus and Paul and the\n    apostles talk about these texts.\n    So that's different from saying nobody\n    knew what these texts meant. The events of Jesus happen, and then we go\n    reread it, and it has a whole new meaning that no one has ever imagined. It\n    seems to me what actually happened in history was a little more interesting\n    and complicated than that.  [17:30-18:21]\n",
      "summary": "Class link Classroom notes (Must be on home network)",
      "date_published": "2022-11-05T06:27:40Z",
      "date_modified": "2022-11-05T06:27:40Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
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