Old Testament/Hebrew Bible: © ST Timothy's Episcopal Church 2013
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible: © ST Timothy's Episcopal Church 2013
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible: © ST Timothy's Episcopal Church 2013
Adult Forum
Bible Boot Camp
Fall 2013
B.C.E. and C.E. Before the Common Era, and Common Era.
Biblical scholars have adopted these terms to date events, in
preference to B. C. (Before Christ) and A. D. (Anno Domino) that
have specifically Christian connotations.
Canon The texts and the single version of the texts the Greek
text compiled by an international committee that stands behind
the NRSV chosen by a community to be authoritative for the
community. For example, Jews have chosen as their canon for the
Hebrew Bible to be 24 texts as preserved in a text developed
around the 9th century C.E. by a group of Jewish scholars called
the Masoretes (hence the Masoretic text, or MT).
Judges During the period from the entry into the Land under
Joshua, to the coronation of Saul as King, Israel was ruled by
judges, individuals called by God primarily to be military
leaders who would rally the individual tribes to throw off the
oppression of the enemies of Israel.
Torah: also the Law, the Pentateuch. The first five books of the
Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).
The tradition is that Moses wrote these five books (even though
his death is recorded in the fifth, Deuteronomy).