Exploring the composition, structure and development of the Catholic Bible, the literary types used in it and important terms related to reading and understanding the Scriptures
9. revelation inspiration tradition The act of God manifesting His presence and His will to a person or persons He chooses. It’s all God’s choice! The act of God’s chosen people in safe keeping/safeguarding/ preserving God’s revelation by remembrance, sharing with others, and recording The act of God moving or motivating His chosen to respond to His revelation, to act according to His will and purpose. oral written
11. God’s Word comes to us clothed in the particular culture and historical experience of the chosen people to whom He revealed His will with divine inspiration.
32. Through the Holy Spirit inspiration Moving, motivating to respond Listening, acting, sharing, transmitting, preserving
33. ORAL tradition WRITTEN - testimony - Interpretation - instruction - reminder - expression of faith - not exactly an actual record of events - written in the context of the writer’s community
34. The Bible was not written in one day or even in a thousand years!
36. redaction recovering lost documents through archaeology, piecing together fragments and examining their authenticity
37. codex A collection of manuscripts compiled according to similarity - origin, time of discovery, place found, subject matter, author, people who collected them
38. canon Authenticated and approved collection of manuscripts from various compiled and redacted codices.
53. Blogging the Bible What happens when an ignoramus reads the Good Book? By David Plotz http://www.slate.com/id/2141050
54. Like many lax but well-educated Jews (and Christians), I have long assumed I knew what was in the Bible—more or less. I read parts of the Torah as a child in Hebrew school, then attended a rigorous Christian high school where I had to study the Old and New Testaments. Many of the highlights stuck in my head—Adam and Eve, Cain vs., Abel, Jacob vs. Esau, Jonah vs. whale, 40 days and nights, 10 plagues and Commandments, 12 tribes and apostles, Red Sea walked under, Galilee Sea walked on, bush into fire, rock into water, water into wine. And, of course, I absorbed other bits of Bible everywhere—from stories I heard in churches and synagogues, movies and TV shows, tidbits my parents and teachers told me. All this left me with a general sense that I knew the Good Book well enough, and that it was a font of crackling stories, Jewish heroes, and moral lessons.
55. So, what can I possibly do? My goal is pretty simple. I want to find out what happens when an ignorant person actually reads the book on which his religion is based. I think I'm in the same position as many other lazy but faithful people (Christians, Jews, Moslems, Hindus). I love Judaism; I love (most of) the lessons it has taught me about how to live in the world; and yet I realized I am fundamentally ignorant about its foundation, its essential document . So, what will happen if I approach my Bible empty, unmediated by teachers or rabbis or parents? What will delight and horrify me? How will the Bible relate to the religion I practice, and the lessons I thought I learned in synagogue and Hebrew School?
