2. Living Waters Wednesday Teaching C. Holoman August 27, 2008

3. NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY COURSE AT LIVING WATERS Beginning Sept 4, 2008, 7:00pm; Dr. Holoman for Providence Bible College and Seminary. The course will last for 30 three hour sessions ending in May 2009

4. NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY COURSE AT LIVING WATERS Beginning Sept 4, 2008, 7:00pm; Dr. Holoman for Providence Bible College and Seminary. The course will last for 30 three hour sessions ending in May 2009

5. For college or seminary credit, students are required to register and pay tuition to the school by calling 757-625-7996. For no college credits, students are expected to behave like students: pay attention, attend the classes on time and do the course reading.

6. TEXT D.S.Russell, Between the Testaments @ Amazon.com

7. TEXT The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha Revised Standard Version Second Edition 1977 @ Amazon.com

8. Reading,to the point of familiarly, of D.S. Russell’s Between the Testaments pages 11-117 is assumed (before class begins) as these subjects were covered in the last quarter of O.T. Survey.

9. Hot News for Living Waters On October 26, Sunday PM will celebrate Sukkoth (the Feast of Booths, Tabernacles) John chapters 7-9 Lev 23:33-43. Deut 16:13-17. Ezra 3:4. 1 K 8:2, 65. Neh 8:13-18. Zech 14:16-19.

10. John 7:37 On the last day of the feast (of Booths), the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. 38 He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, `Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.'"

11. Hosea 9:5 What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD? Hosea 12:9 I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in booths, as in the days of the appointed feast.

12. Canonicity (Last Week) The origin, sacredness, authority and inspiration of canonical scripture.

13. Hebrews 1:1 In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son,.. Revelation unto scripture came..in many and various ways.. but the source was God.

14. Canonization= ‘the rule’ (This Week, Part 1) The which lasted for almost five centuries. The historical process, of establishing certain writings to be scripture Cannon, and thus eliminating other writings.

15. Canonization= the process of establishing the ‘standard or rule’ is distinct from the origin or even the initial collecting into a sacred literature of the writings themselves.

16. Before any process we might call canonization there was already a great national literature concerning the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the judges, the prophets, of Saul, David, the history of Israel and Judah, ancient poems and songs, codes of law and other writings. These writings were treasured and carefully stewarded. They were much ‘too special’ to be altered; the original parts documents could be edited into larger texts, but originality with its authenticity was diligently maintained.

17. Evidence of writing are everywhere present even in the most ancient strata of scripture. Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. There is little reason question the accuracy of scripture (history of events or sayings) for they were recorded within the living memory of those who wrote them and/or edited by persons with access to original material.

18. The date The date of publication and canonization of the Pentateuch is unknown but may be fixed before the Samaritan schism 432BC, Neh 13:28-29. A date of 400 BC cannot be seriously questioned.

19. The progress of canonization can be seen in the prologue of Sirach 180, 132 BC “..the law and the prophets and other books of our fathers..” In principal then the canon of the prophets was in existence by about 200 BC

20. “..the law and the prophets and other books of our fathers..” What these ‘other books’ that had been translated into Greek (beginning 180BC) we have no way of knowing, perhaps: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Daniel and others.

21. The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70AD and the propaganda of the Christians quoting from the Greek LXX forced the Jews to fix their canon of inspired scriptures for all time under the leadership of Johanan ben Zakkai at the Council of Jamnia in 90AD.

22. Under pressure of rising Christianity, the Jewish-Hebrew canonization of the Old Testament (Council of Jamnia 90AD) not only omitted the books we call Apocrypha from the LXX but the books of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha as well.

23. Thus the Jews canonized the Hebrew scriptures as we have them in our OT, however the early church had and used the Greek LXX translation which included the Apocrypha. Interestingly, our Bibles have the Jewish-Hebrew (90AD) canonized Old Testament, not the Greek OT used by the early church.

24. The ‘codex Alexandrinus’ 5 th C. Contains nearly the full LXX and the Pseudepigrapha book, Psalm of Solomon.

25. Literary Organization In the Jewish-Hebrew OT: The Law, The Prophets, The Writings. In the LXX, Alexandrian Greek Bible: History, Poetical, Wisdom, Prophets, Maccabees. Note:Protestant Bibles use the Hebrew-Jewish order, while the Orthodox Bibles use the LXX order.

26. Almost all Old Testament quotations in the New Testament come from the Greek LXX-OT, not from the Jewish-Hebrew OT. However, in our Bibles the Old Testament is translated from the Jewish-Hebrew OT texts. (You can see this by comparing NT quotations of OT passages with the same passage from the OT.)

27. Planed End August 27, 2008 Next week we will look at the canonization and non- canonization of the Apocrypha and the week after the canonization of the NT.