Revelation discusses future 66 books GenesisRevelation 1600 years in the making 39 OT 1400 BC400 BC 27 NT 50100 AD 44 authors MosesJohn Shepherds fishermen soldiers generals doctors preachers kings ID: 814884
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Slide1
Bible
Slide2Spans timeline of 2500 B.C. to 100A.D.
-Revelation discusses future
66 books
, Genesis-Revelation
1600 years in the making
39 OT 1400 B.C.-400 B.C., 27 NT 50-100 A.D.
44 authors, Moses-John
Shepherds, fishermen, soldiers, generals, doctors, preachers, kings
Originally Hebrew (Aramaic) & Greek
Latin 5th century, English 1388 A.D. by Wycliff
Slide3KJV Bible
-Translated for the Church of England in 1601-1611
Slide4James I
King of England
&
Scotland
17th century
Ordered original translated simply
&
accurately
Attempt
s
ettle conflict between church
&
state
when became king
Done by hand
First King James translation presented 1611
A.D.
Divided
into
chapters 122
8 A.D.
V
erses:
OT in 1448 A.D., NT in
1551 A.D.
Geneva 1560 full division
Slide554 College Professors
Cambridge, Oxford, Westminster
Hebrew for OT
Greek for NT
Consulted Chaldean, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch & early English translations
First American edition before 1752
Since 1964, 1200+ languages
Slide6Genesis
Written 1400 B.C. by Moses
Original Hebrew title,
Bereshith
(
“in beginning”)named after first word or twoGenesis = Greek, “birth,” “genealogy,” “history of origin”
Mesopotamian culture
Literature:
Enuma elish
, babylonian god,
Gilgamesh
, epic flood,
Atrahasis
parallels creation-rebellion-flood, Nuzi tablets (customs), many more!
Slide7Themes & Structure
Contrast
- light & dark, sea & sky, land & sea
Birth, creation, family
God v. man, natureYounger son (rather first born)
Prose
narrative
, brief lyrical poems
Figurative speech
Numerical patterns
(divided by 10, repeat
7
)
Slide8Slide9Exodus
1446 B.C.
Written by Moses
Continuation of the history in
Genesis
Features the deliverance of the Israelites from EgyptAfter
400 years
of slavery started when Joseph’s generation died + new Pharaoh
10 plagues
10 commandments (number patterns again)
Historical narrative prose
Themes
:
promise
,
faithfulness
, and
deliverance
Geneaology:
Shem
-> ->
Abram
->
Isaac
->
Jacob/Israel
->
Levi
-> ->
Moses
Slide10Slide11Sources
http://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/who-wrote-the-bible
http://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/history-kjv
http://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/original-language-bible
Concordia Self-Study Bible NIV by Robert Hoerber, Ph.D.
http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/Bible/Bible/Bible%20Charts/Charts%20of%20the%20Books%20of%20the%20Bible.htm