The document provides information about the Bible, including:
- It contains the actual interactions between God and humans throughout history.
- The books of the New Testament were written between 45-95 AD.
- Early church fathers like Clement and Polycarp referenced the texts as early as 95-135 AD.
- Scholars like Martin Luther and William Tyndale translated the Bible to make it accessible to wider audiences in the 16th century.
- Biblical criticism developed as a scientific approach to studying the composition, history and texts of the Bible.
2. 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
3. What is the Bible?
• A working definition:
A collection of writings
containing the record and
revelation of God’s
interaction with man.
4. … of God’s interaction with
man.
• Actual people
• Actual places
• Actual problems
• Actual encounters
• Actually God
5. New Testament
Book Date Book Date
James 45-49 Philippians 63
Galatians 49 Philemon 63-64
Thessalonians 51 1 Peter 63-66
Mark 50-60 1 Timothy 63-66
Matthew 50-60 Titus 64-68
Corinthians 55-58 Hebrews 66
Romans 60 2 Peter 67
Luke 61 2 Timothy 68-80
Acts 61 Jude 85-90
Colossians 61 John 85-90
Ephesians 61 1,2,3 John 90-95
Revelation
6. 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)
8. 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
9. Biblical Criticism
• Scientific approach to the Bible
• Divided into two approaches
– Higher Criticism – composition and
history
– Lower Criticism (literary) – original
or “correct” readings
10. 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
12. 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.
Notas do Editor
Indulgences soled by Johann Tetzel. Diet of Worms in 1521 lead to excommunication by Pope Leo X Translation of the Bible into German NT 1522 and OT in 1534. Others had translated it into German but Luther tailored his translation to his doctrine. His translation was in a German that could be read by Northern and Southern Germans. Published at a time of rising demand for German-language publications, Luther's version quickly became a popular and influential Bible translation. As such, it made a significant contribution to the evolution of the German language and literature.[126] Furnished with notes and prefaces by Luther, and with woodcuts by Lucas Cranach that contained anti-papal imagery, it played a major role in the spread of Luther's doctrine throughout Germany.[127] The Luther Bible influenced other vernacular translations, such as William Tyndale's English Bible (1525 forward), a precursor of the King James Bible.[128]
the popularity ofWycliffe's Bible in the 14th century resulted in a ban on the publication of the Bible in English; almost all vernacular Bibles were confiscated and burned. Tyndale's illegal translation was the first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation, and the first to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first to take advantage of the new medium of the print, which allowed for wide distribution. This was taken to be a direct challenge to the hegemony of both the Roman Catholic Church and the English church and state. Tyndale also wrote, in 1530, The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's divorce on the grounds that it contravened scriptural law.
Scientific approach to the Bible – 17-18 Centuries.
Scientific approach to the Bible – 17-18 Centuries.