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A verse-by-verse study through the entire Bible, Genesis through Revelation!
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It takes approximately 7-8 years to study
through the entire Bible, verse-by-verse!
Our class meets for three academic
quarters each year: fall, winter and spring.
Each quarter consists of ten weeks.
Each week consists of two 50-minute
lessons with a 15-minute break in between.
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I have written an in-depth syllabus for
each book of the Bible we will study.
You can download the Genesis syllabus at
my web site: logosbiblestudy.com/syllabus.
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The primary text for our class is: The
Catholic Study Bible, revised edition. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
The supplemental text for the Old
Testament is: Lawrence Boadt. Reading the
Old Testament, an Introduction, 2ndedition.New York: Paulist Press, 2012.
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For Roman Catholics I also recommend as
a reference work: Catechism of the Catholic
Church. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
The supplemental reading for the New
Testament is: Luke Timothy Johnson. The
Writings of the New Testament, 3rdedition.Minneaopolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
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I will record our lessons each week, and by
Friday of the same week the lessons will be
on my web site: logosbiblestudy.com/audio.
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I also write a weekly blog that addresses a
variety of biblical topics: billcreasy.com.
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We will study all 73 books of the larger
Septuagint canon of Scripture, the canon
accepted by the Roman Catholic Church asinspired by God.
Our method will be to alternate back and
forth between the Old and New Testaments:Genesis, Matthew, Exodus/Leviticus, Mark . .
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Gracious Father,
We thank you for bringing us here today
To read and to study your Word.
Please open our minds and hearts to what you have to say
That in better understanding you
We may come to love you more deeply.
God our Father,You sent your Son into the world to be its true light.
Pour out the Holy Spirit you promised us,
To sow truth in our hearts
And awaken in us obedience to the faith.
May we all be born again to new life
And enter the fellowship of your one holy people.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you and the Holy SpiritOne God for ever and ever.
Amen.
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The word Bible in Greek is ta biblia, meaning the books, an
anthology of many individual works, not the product of a single person.
The Christian Bible consists of 73 individual books, numbering roughly
2,000 pages of text, written over a period of 1.500 yearsfrom around
1,400 B.C. through 100 A.D.by at lease 45 different authors, each book
passing through the hands of editors and redactors, and each book
having its own more or less complex textual history.
The Bible was written a long time ago in a culture very different from
our own.
Yet, the Bible is the best selling book in history, averaging over 30
million copies each year and selling more than 150 billion copies since
Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in A.D. 1453.
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Nevertheless, few people have actually read
the Bible, cover to cover.
Even fewer have studied it verse-by-verse.
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Our Mission:To study the Bible systematically, verse-by-verse,
Genesis through Revelation.
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Our Goals:
To create educated readers of Scripture, fully
equipped to engage the text in its full historical,
cultural and literary context and to reflect accuratelythe teaching and traditions of the Roman Catholic
Church.
To bring students into a deeper, more intimate
relationship with Christ.
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The Christian canon of Scripture was not
defined until the 4th-century A.D.
Council of Hippo, A.D. 393
Council of Carthage, A.D. 397
Pope Innocent I, A.D. 405
Latin Vulgate, 5th century A.D
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Early Christian biblical scholars:
Marcion of Pontus (c. A.D. 85-160)
Justin Martyr (c. A.D. 100-165)
Irenaeus of Lyons (2ndcent.- A.D. 202)
Origen of Alexandria (c. A.D. 185-253)
Jerome (c. A.D. 340-420)
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Medieval biblical scholarship:
Glossa Ordinaria (12th century)
Patristic commentary on entire Bible
Stephen Langton (d. 1228) Divided Bible into chapters
Thomas Galus (d. 1246)
Divided chapters into verses
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
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Modern biblical scholarship (post Vatican II):
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine RevelationDei
Verbum (1965)
Stresses importance of Scripture and Tradition in the life ofthe Church.
Interpretation of the Bible in the Church (1993)
Discusses interpretive approaches to Scripture
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Many Ways to approach Scripture:Historical-critical method (foundational)
Textual criticism
Literary criticism
Historical criticism
Source criticism
Form criticism
Redaction criticism
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In our class we will take a literary approach
to Scripture, an approach that is based on
four foundational principles.
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Principle #1:
The Bible is rooted in geography.
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Principle #2:
The Bible is emerges from history.
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Principle #3:
The Biblein its final, finished formis a
unified literary work.
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Principle #4:
The Bible is the Word of God.
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The World of the Bible Is:
Patriarchal
Monarchical
Polytheistic
Slaveholding
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1. What is your motivation for taking this class?
2. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your
current knowledge of the Bible?
3. What do you expect to learn by taking thisclass?
4. Have you taken any other Scripture classes?
5. When I say the phrase Bible class, what
word or image springs to mind?