1. Surprisingly Super Summer Sunday Seminar Series
Welcome

2. GOAL Learn something you did not know before! About the Bible
About being a Christian
About being a Presbyterian Christian
Come as much as you can
Don’t have to be here every Sunday

3. Schedule June 10, 17, 24 – Hello Bible
July 1, 8 –Presbyterian, for sure!
July 15 – August 26 – What’s the Church for anyway
The goal of the summer seminars series is to introduce/review background information about the Bible. What the Bible is, the outline of the Old Testament, and the outline of the New Testament. We’ll do all that in June 10, 17, and 24.
Then we’ll move into a little background of the Presbyterian Church. We’ll spend a couple of Sundays in July looking at how the Old and New Testament gave rise to the Presbyterian Church. On July 1 we’ll look at where the Presbyterian Church came from and where it is today. On July 8 we’ll explore the basic structure and essentials of the Presbyterian Church.
The last half of July and in August we’re going to spend some time looking at what we call the “Great Ends of the Church.” There are six fundamental reasons why we Presbyterians believe that our church exists. We going to take one per Sunday and hear about each one, have some time to think and discuss them, and see how each one is relevant to what God is calling KirdWood to be and become.

4. What the bible is!
A human word about God.
and
God’s word to humans.

5. M.C Escher’s Drawing Hands
Both statements are true
We do the same thing when we talk about Jesus
Jesus was fully God
Jesus was fully human
How can you have both things at the same time?
Great thinkers have been talking about that for a couple of thousand years!
It’s called paradox – two things that are mutually exclusive yet exist side by side
God is merciful
God is just
People are capable of acts of great love
People are capable of acts of extreme evil
M.C Escher’s
Drawing Hands

6. The Bible was written by ancient eastern Hebrews.
There is no scientific explanation of the universe in the Bible.
The Old Testament was written mostly in Hebrew – there are some very short passages in Aramaic
The New Testament was written in Greek
For instance there is no explanation in the Bible of where the snake in the Garden came from.
The Bible does not answer the question – who was Cain’s wife
About half the Bible is Hebrew narrative
About a third is poetry
About a third is expository – letters, Hebrew apocalyptic literature

7. The Bible many different kinds of literary devices
1/3 of the Bible is Hebrew Narrative
Beautiful Intricately Designed Stories
Ruth
Jonah
The Garden of Eden
The relationship of the Hebrews and the Moabites
The Levirate Marriage Traditions
The stigma of childless women
The importance of the genealogy at the end
What is the story of Jonah really all about? Is it just a fish tale?
How important is the creation story to the rest of the Bible

8. The Bible many different kinds of literary devices
1/3 of the Bible is Hebrew Poetry
Much of it is very dense
The Song of the Sea
Exodus 15
The Song of Deborah
Judges 5
Most of the Prophetic Writing
The Psalms
Job
The relationship of the Hebrews and the Moabites
The Levirate Marriage Traditions
The stigma of childless women
The importance of the genealogy at the end
What is the story of Jonah really all about? Is it just a fish tale?
How important is the creation story to the rest of the Bible

9. Anybody know the first poem in the Bible?
Genesis 1:27
The relationship of the Hebrews and the Moabites
The Levirate Marriage Traditions
The stigma of childless women
The importance of the genealogy at the end
What is the story of Jonah really all about? Is it just a fish tale?
How important is the creation story to the rest of the Bible

10. The Bible many different kinds of literary devices
1/3 of the Bible is Hebrew Expository Writing
Gospel
Mail
Hebrew Apocalyptic

11. What is the old testament?

12. It is the Hebrew bible!

14. Law, Teaching, Instruction
TA = Torah
Law, Teaching, Instruction
NA = Nevi’im
Prophets
KH = Ketuvim
Writings

15. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus
Torah = Pentateuch
First Five Books
Books of Moses
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus
Numbers, Deuteronomy

16. Major Prophets, Minor Prophets
Nevi’im
Major Prophets, Minor Prophets
Joshua, Judges Samuel, Kings,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
The Twelve

17. Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles
Ketuvim
Poetic
Psalms, Proverbs, Job
Scrolls
Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations,
Ecclesiastes, Esther
Historical
Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles

18. Who wrote The old testament?

19. Evidence of writing the bible in the bible
Exodus 17:14
Exodus 24:4

20. Deuteronomy 31:24-26; 34:6, 10-12
Judges 21:25
Proverbs 1:1, 25:1, 30:1, 31:1
Jeremiah 36:32

22. Historians did not write the Old Testament
See verses like
1 Kings 14:41

23. When was it written?

24. Masoretic Text
The Septuagint
The Dead Sea Scrolls

25. Meticulously handwritten
Masoretic Text
Leningrad Codex
Completed in 1008
Meticulously handwritten
To preserve God’s word

26. The Septuagint A Greek Translation of the Hebrew Bible
Completed about 200 B.C.
The Bible of the First Century Church

27. Copies and fragments of the Hebrew Bible
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Found in the 1940s
Copies and fragments of the Hebrew Bible
from as early as 200B.C.

28. What’s in the
Old Testament

29. The Patriarchs – Genesis 12 – 50
Prehistory – Genesis 1 – 11
The Patriarchs – Genesis 12 – 50

30. Moses and the Exodus
Exodus 1 – 18
At Mount Sinai
Exodus 19 – Numbers 10:10