INTRODUCTION TO THE SACRED SCRIPTURES

OUTLINE OF THE LECTURE Exegesis and Hermeneutics Three Worlds of Interpretation Rabbinic Interpretation  (see also the class handout) History of Biblical Interpretation: From the Fathers to Reformation  (See also the class handout) The Historical-Critical Method (see also the class handout) Contemporary Approaches (See also the handout) Paul Ricoeur on Hermeneutics

For the guide questions on BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY, click here to download  it. A Philistine Pottery A Tell A replica of a typical ancient Israelite House

Where did Israel Come from?  When I was a student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1997, I've written a paper on this question. I've published it later in our academic journal, DIWA , vol. 34 (2009). You can click HERE to download a copy (pdf) of this article. See also our textbook, pp. 205-206 ("Various Theories of Israelite Settlement in Canaan).

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Click here to download or read online: 1. The Ancient Near East 2. The Lands of the Bible (OT) 3. The Lands of Many Contrasts 4. Map of Israel (Old Testament Times) 5. Map of Israel's Natural Resources (Old Testament) 6. inductive  Map of Palestine During the Time of Jesus 7. Jerusalem Shel Zahab (Jerusalem of Gold) 8. Jerusalem during the Passion of Jesus

CLICK ON THE LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 1. Scripts, Writing Materials, and the Masoretic Text 2. Writing Materials - IMAGES 3. Textual Criticism of the New Testament and Scribal Errors 4. Examples from the New Testament of Textual Problems 5.  The TEXTUS RECEPTUS

Hammurabi Code - Stone Tablet Ostraca - Lachish deer parchment (scroll) Priestly blessing (ca. 600 B.C.E.) in silver scroll  Click here for CODEX VATICANUS

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Nag Hammadi Library So-called Gospel of JUDAS

1. Dead Sea Scrolls 2. Old Testament Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals) and Pseudepigrapha)

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Click here to download a scanned copy of A Guide, part One.

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