Lecture 1 Ot
Lecture 1 Ot
Lecture 1 Ot
TESTAMENT
COURSE LEADER
“GETTING OUR
BEARINGS”
OBJECTIVES
IN HUMAN WORD
The word of Moses
Isaiah
Preacher
THE OLD TESTAMENT IS LIKE A
ROPE OF THREE STRANDS…
HISTORICAL
LITERARY
THEOLOGICAL
THE HISTORICAL
DIMENSION
The Physical setting of the OT:
PENTATEUCH TORAH
Gen, Exod, Lev, Num, Deut Gen, Exod, Lev, Num, Deut
PROPHETS (Nevi’im)
HISTORICAL BOOKS “Former Prophets”
Josh, Judg, Ruth, Josh, Judg,
1-2 Sam, 1-2 Kgs, 1-2 Sam, 1-2 Kgs
1-2 Chron, Ezra, Neh, Esth
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APOCRYPHA
Tobit, Judith, 1-2 Maccabees,
Wisdom of Solomon, Ben Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Baruch
John 1:1-18:
- “The Word came to his own home and his
own people received him not” (Old)
- “ The Word became flesh and dwelt
among us” (New)
The Bible is a two-fold revelation of God to
us.
The Old Testament is completed and
fulfilled in the New. Thus the OT is seen
by Christians as a “preparation for the
Gospel.”