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.