Understanding the Bible's Origins
Understanding the Bible's Origins
BIBLE CONCEPT:
V The Bible (from
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Bible is the catalogue of the the Greek βιβλία: biblía,
seventy-three "books") is a set of canonical
books of the Old and New books that in Judaism and OTHER BIBLES:
Testaments that make up the Bible Christianity are considered a
and product of divine inspiration
and a reflection or record of In addition to the Catholic Bible, which is the
which the Church has declared the relationship between
to be divinely inspired. only
God and humanity.
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complete one, there are the Hebrew Bible and
AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE the
Protestant Bibles. The Hebrew Bible contains
only thirty-nine
books of the Old Testament.
Therefore, they reject seven books of the
The primary Author of the Bible is God.
Old Testament and all of the New Testament
The secondary or instrumental
that make up the Catholic Bible.
author of
the Bible is the sacred writer or
MATERIALS ON WHICH THE BIBLE
hagiographer (the man). For example, WAS WRITTEN:
Moses, the prophet Isaiah, Saint Matthew,
Saint Paul, etc.
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approximately 1000 years (between
- Old Testament 900 BC. C. and 100 AD. C.).
- The Biblical Canon.
- Biblical
Hermeneutics.
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- Other Bibles.
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THE BIBLE: