Michelle’s topic was clear and consice and I honestly enjoyed and understood it. She had Women in the Bible, and told us that it blatantly discussed how it was about women AND the Bible, not necessarily the ones in it. It was said that the Bible showed God & Man’s connection and how it was used to overpower women. I feel strongly about this. I agree that Man is capitolized in the Bible and women are just characters to serve and please the man. I enjoyed this presentation!

Redgina was a little too soft-spoken but from what I got from her presentation, it was The Name of Israel’s God. Yaweh was too sacred to be pronounced and many types of writings were gone through before typing (obviously). O was interested in how she described the works of clay writing and paparys writing in the bible. I wish I understood more that she said because she spoke so softly :/ Still! good job 🙂

Mohammad’s presentation helped me to understand what he was presenting about because at times he did seem nervous and a bit jumbled up. He has Palestine in the Interestimental Period. I learned about the 3 periods of time: the Greek, Jewish, and Roman. My favorite part was being able to put a name to the calender that we use today: The Gregorian Calender.

Awesome Jobs 🙂

Waleska’s chapter was “Texts of the bible.” I found it very interesting because she stated that changes occur in the bible because of copying the bible over to produce more, and for more languages and cultures, and religions. The copiers wanted to not only produce more bibles but to correct and perfect the bible- this was VERY cool to learn about, because I feel like it is naiive to think that the bible we read today is the exact writings from the beginning of time.

Bernice, although she spoke a little fast, made good points throughout her presentation. The biggest point (to me) was that when translating the bible, although not many people were able to do so successfully, it had to pass by the person who was on the throne at the time. I feel that it is strange that the people translating the bible are listening to their king/president over their Lord. That was funny and ironic to me.

Anne had chapter 18 which was a little boring, but she obviously had no say in it! Her presentation was fabulous for what she was given. The only thing I found about chapter 18 that was very striking was that there were different “senses” of the Bible. Such as common sense, literal, moral, and allegorical sense. These senses were used to interpret what the bible meant as compared to what it was literally saying.

awesome job guys !!!!! 🙂

Nick did the Gospel’s and I automatically thought it was interesting that the word came from “God Spell.” That was something I took note of because it struck me as interesting. Nick pointed out that we don’t know who wrote the Gospel’s and there are only four. Those were the main questions- why were there only four? Also, he said that the Gospel’s were to preserve the witnessing of Jesus into stories, because the witnesses were “dying off,” which was another point that I found very interesting. I didn’t quite understand the “Q” thing though- maybe someone can explain it more on here for me 🙂

Katie did the Letters and Acts. She said that they claimed it was history, but that it is only from one point of view- which makes it questionable. I liked that. If she didn’t explain that I think it would have made less sense. Also, she said the quote that it was to “teach, not to preach” which I remembered because of its catchy rhyme scheme. With hers she said that the questioning was not to determine who wrote it, but what it as directed at. That was really interesting and challenged the reading. I loved how Katie challenged the book by saying that no matter if Paul was involved or not- Christianity and Judaism would someday part ways.

Olivia did chapter 13, and although there were many big words- I tried to stay involved in listening and understanding her interpretation. She did a great job at explaining what certain words meant which will probably always stick with me now. Such as septugen- which is the 72 elders who translated the torrah into greek. Also, she challenged the book and used the information bout context- as james Carroll told us- and said that many people claimed to have written the books- but when they were written the people were already dead. hm. I loved how she mentioned that Adam and Eve was written in the first century. That was cool.

Good Job everyone 🙂

Seans presentation really stuck out to me today- although everyone was fantastic- his topic was very interesting today. I think it is great that “The Bible As Literature” explains the obvious- that the bible isn’t all historic events- but stories, and history that relates to people. Some of the quotes he said that struck me were-i probably didn’t catch the whole phrase- “the bible was wrote for molding history to fit the needs of the people” and “they selected past events in a way to help shape their futures” ….these are probably mixed up but it is what i wrote down. I like this. History was only incidental to their religious ends, and they molded the history to fit the needs of the reader at that time. Cool, Good Job.

Pentateuch is the five first books of the Bible- said to be written by Moses…Did she say that Moses died before these books were written? If so- that kind of proves that he didn’t write this. Also- didn’t he die…..hm- writing about your own death seems impossible to me. Sorry, I am spicy and maybe didn’t catch all the specifics, but it was a great presentation and it reminded me about how there are so many discrepancies over who wrote what in the bible. Although- I never heard this argument before. It does reminds me of how Mark wrote his part of the book way later on- not when it was occurring…Moses was obviously not the main author of the books…I feel as though authors being questioned within the bible creates so much disbelief in the bible itself.

…this was kind of a stupid rant- sorry 🙂

Wanitas presentation related to our guest speakers presentation a lot to me. She spoke on the topic of how the bible used stories from other mythologies and that they are in the bible. This related back to the subject of context. When our guest speaker was talking about Mark, he said that it wasn’t as though Mark was taking notes while Jesus was getting crucified, but that many years later he was putting into context what happened. Though the bible may use stories from other myths and legends, it doesn’t make it plagiarism because back then, plagiarism wasn’t around. This just solidifies to me that the bible is a collection of great stories- not based on 100% true facts.

Never reading the bible before this, made reading Mark prettyinteresting. Jesus walked on water, and predicted that he would die and resurrect. I didn’t know that his disciples didn’t beleive him at first. He said that he was going to kill the Son of Man and He will resurrect. Jesus died as predicted and showed his disciples that he was God’s son. I enjoyed Mark.

I WOULD LIKE THE BOOK OF JJJJJOOOOOOOONNNNNNAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

jonah

please and thanks 🙂 Kia

Ten Outside Camp

• Moses/ Lord
• Moses used to pitch tent outside of camp
• “tent of meeting” For everyone who sought to see the lord
• The people would rise for Moses
• A cloud would decent and the lord would speak with Moses
• The people would all bow down
• “Thus the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend”

Katie, Redgina, Tom & Kia

• AUTHORSHIP: how many authors are there? Who are they? Is there anyway to really find out?
• HISTORY: What time period it was actually written in? Is this possible to find out?
• AUDIENCE: Who was this first written for? Was it directed towards churchgoers, or just anyone who wanted to know the meaning of life?
• PURPOSES: Who, What, Why was it written? For the church? For higher people in society? For jewish, religious people? …..