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OT week 2
Supplemental Flash Cards for week 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Historical Critical Method | Enlightenment way of scholarship that takes God out of equation |
| Minimalists | Whitelam Thompson, Davies |
| Biblical Archeology | Alrbight |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | found first in 1946, contain texts dating back to 250 BC |
| Hebrew Bible | ends with Chronicles; different order from Christian OT |
| Protestant Old Testament | ends with Malachi |
| Catholic Old Testament | includes Apocrypha |
| Apocrypha | Jewish Writings that are not canonical; not authoritative |
| canon | set of authoritative writings; i.e. scripture |
| earliest acceptance of all OT books | 200s BC |
| Josephus | Jewish Historian who described the OT as holy writings in 100 AD |
| Athanasius | wrote a letter in 352 that happened to contain a list of the biblical books - certain date of closed canon |
| Samaritan Pentateuch | slightly different theology from MT, used Samaritan alphabet |
| Text Criticism | originally attempting to restore the original text of the OT |