living waters wednesday teaching c. holoman august 27, 2008
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Living WatersWednesday Teaching
C. HolomanAugust 27, 2008
NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY COURSE AT LIVING WATERS
Beginning Sept 4, 2008, 7:00pm; Dr. Holoman for Providence
Bible College and Seminary. The course will last for 30 three hour
sessions ending in May 2009
NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY COURSE AT LIVING WATERS
Beginning Sept 4, 2008, 7:00pm; Dr. Holoman for Providence
Bible College and Seminary. The course will last for 30 three hour
sessions ending in May 2009
For college or seminary credit, students are required to register and pay tuition to the school by
calling 757-625-7996.
For no college credits, students are expected to behave
like students: pay attention, attend the classes on time and
do the course reading.
TEXT D.S.Russell,
Between the Testaments
@ Amazon.com
TEXTThe New Oxford Annotated Bible
with the ApocryphaRevised Standard Version
Second Edition 1977@ Amazon.com
Reading,to the point of familiarly, of D.S. Russell’s Between the
Testaments pages 11-117
is assumed(before class begins)
as these subjects were covered in the last quarter of O.T. Survey.
Hot News for Living Waters On October 26, Sunday PM
will celebrate Sukkoth (the Feast of Booths, Tabernacles)
John chapters 7-9 Lev 23:33-43. Deut 16:13-17.
Ezra 3:4. 1 K 8:2, 65. Neh 8:13-18. Zech 14:16-19.
John 7:37 On the last day of the feast (of Booths), the great day,
Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. 38 He who believes in
me, as the scripture has said, `Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living
water.'"
Hosea 9:5 What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on
the day of the feast of the LORD?
Hosea 12:9 I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will
again make you dwell in booths, as in the days of the appointed feast.
Canonicity (Last Week)The origin, sacredness, authority
and inspiration of canonical scripture.
Hebrews 1:1 In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; 2 but in these last days he
has spoken to us by a Son,..
Revelation unto scripture came ..in many and various ways.. but the source
was God.
Canonization= ‘the rule’(This Week, Part 1)
The which lasted for almost five centuries. The historical process,
of establishing certain writings to be scripture Cannon, and thus
eliminating other writings.
Canonization= the process of establishing the ‘standard or
rule’ is distinct from the origin or even the initial collecting into a sacred literature of the writings
themselves.
Before any process we might call canonization there was already a great
national literature concerning the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the judges, the prophets, of Saul, David, the history of Israel and Judah, ancient poems and songs, codes of law and
other writings. These writings were treasured and carefully stewarded. They were much ‘too
special’ to be altered; the original parts documents could be edited into larger texts,
but originality with its authenticity was diligently maintained.
Evidence of writing are everywhere present even in the most ancient strata of scripture. Genesis 5:1 This is the book
of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness
of God.There is little reason question the
accuracy of scripture (history of events or sayings) for they were recorded within
the living memory of those who wrote them and/or edited by persons with
access to original material.
The date The date of publication and
canonization of the Pentateuch is unknown but may be fixed before
the Samaritan schism 432BC, Neh 13:28-29. A date of 400 BC
cannot be seriously questioned.
The progress of canonization can be seen in the prologue of
Sirach 180, 132 BC“..the law and the prophets
and other books of our fathers..”In principal then the canon of the
prophets was in existence by about 200 BC
“..the law and the prophets and other books of our fathers..”
What these ‘other books’ that had been translated into Greek (beginning 180BC) we have no
way of knowing, perhaps: Psalms, Proverbs, Job,
Ecclesiastes, Daniel and others.
The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70AD and the
propaganda of the Christians quoting from the Greek LXX
forced the Jews to fix their canon of inspired scriptures for all time under the leadership of Johanan
ben Zakkai at the Council of Jamnia in 90AD.
Under pressure of rising Christianity, the Jewish-Hebrew
canonization of the Old Testament (Council of Jamnia
90AD) not only omitted the books we call Apocrypha from the LXX but the books of Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha as well.
Thus the Jews canonized the Hebrew scriptures as we have them in our OT , however the
early church had and used the Greek LXX translation which
included the Apocrypha.Interestingly, our Bibles have the Jewish-Hebrew (90AD) canonized Old Testament, not the Greek OT
used by the early church.
The ‘codex Alexandrinus’ 5th C. Contains nearly the full LXX and
the Pseudepigrapha book, Psalm of Solomon.
Literary OrganizationIn the Jewish-Hebrew OT:
The Law, The Prophets, The Writings.
In the LXX, Alexandrian Greek Bible: History, Poetical, Wisdom,
Prophets, Maccabees.Note:Protestant Bibles use the Hebrew-Jewish order, while the
Orthodox Bibles use the LXX order.
Almost all Old Testament quotations in the New Testament
come from the Greek LXX-OT, not from the Jewish-Hebrew OT.
However, in our Bibles the Old Testament is translated from the
Jewish-Hebrew OT texts.(You can see this by comparing NT quotations of OT passages with the
same passage from the OT.)
Planed EndAugust 27, 2008
Next week we will look at the canonization and non-
canonization of the Apocrypha
and the week after the canonization of the NT.