| NEW
BEGINNERS
Class
Notes: Session 2
(December
1st, 2005)
Dear
New Beginner's
Here
are the notes from tonight's class. If you have any questions,
please let me know. I really enjoyed
seeing you this evening.
December
1st 2005
a.
Books of the Bible
b.
How to find your way around
c.
Genre's of the bible
d.
How to read the bible by yourself
e.
Review of homework
f.
Q and A
Homework:
Paul's letter to the Philippians
Books
of the Bible: Categories and Genres
Old
Testament
Pentateuch:
Story of creation, the fall, the beginning of
redemption and the revelation of the law : Genre
: Law and history
1.
Genesis
2.
Exodus
3.
Leviticus
4.
Numbers
5.
Deuteronomy
History
of Israel before the Kings: Genre
: history
6.
Joshua
7.
Judges
8.
Ruth
History
of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah: From the
founding of the kingdom to the exile Genre
: history
9.
1st Samuel
10.
2nd Samuel
11.
1st Kings
12.
2nd Kings
13.
1 st Chronicles
14.
2 nd Chronicles
History
of the Exile and return from Exile Genre
: history
15.
Ezra
16.
Nehemiah
17.
Esther
The
Poetic Books Genre: Poetry,
Liturgy, Prose, Wisdom sayings
18.
Job
19.
Psalms
20.
Proverbs
21.
Ecclesiastes
22.
Song of Songs
The
Major Prophets Genre :
prophetic literature, apocalyptic literature, poetry
23.
Isaiah
24.
Jeremiah
25.
Lamentations
26.
Ezekiel
27.
Daniel
The
Minor Prophets Genre
: prophetic literature, apocalyptic literature
28.
Hosea
29.
Joel
30.
Amos
31.
Obadiah
32.
Jonah
33.
Micah
34.
Nahum
35.
Habakkuk
36.
Zephaniah
37.
Haggai
38. Zechariah
39.
Malachi'
Books
of the New Testament:
The
stories of Jesus Genre :
historical narrative
40.
Matthew
41.
Mark
42.
Luke
43:
John
The
Story of the Early Church Genre
: historical narrative
44.
Acts
The
Pauline Corpus : Genre:
letters and epistles
45.
Romans
46.
1 st Corinthians
47.
2 nd Corinthians
48.
Galatians
49.
Ephesians
50.
Philippians
51.
Colossians
52.
1 st Thessalonians
53.
2 nd Thessalonians
Paul's
Pastoral Letters
54.
1 st Timothy
55.
2 nd Timothy
56.
Titus
57.
Philemon
The
Catholic Corpus Genre
:
Letters and epistles
58.
Hebrews
59.
James
The
Petrine Corpus
60.
1 st Peter
61.
2 nd Peter
The
Johanine Corpus
62.
1 st John
63.
2 nd John
64.
3 rd John
65.
Jude
The
End of History Genre
Apocalyptic/prophetic literature
66.
revelation
How
to find your way around: Review of the “Half” technique (diving
the bible into halves.
- Open your
bible right in the middle so that you have two equal portions.
You should be somewhere between the book of Psalms or Isaiah
or somewhere nearby
- If you take
the left half and open it to the middle as well you should
find yourself somewhere between 1 st Samuel and 2 nd Kings.
- If you go
left you will find everything from Judges to Genesis.
- If you go
right you will find everything from 2 nd Kings to Job.
- Repeat step
1
- This time
take the right half of the bible and open it to the middle.
You should be in Matthew of one of the other gospels.
- If you go
right you will find everything from Mark to Revelation
- If you go
left you will find everything from Malachi' to Proverbs.
Use
the “Half” technique along with your map of the bible to find
your way around and begin to get a sense for the organizational
structure of the scriptures.
Genre's
of the bible and sword drills:
Genre
= type and character of literature. “Mystery” is its own literary
genre .
1.
The bible has several different types of genre
2.
In order to read the bible properly you must know what sort
of literature you are reading.
3.
If you were, for example, to read a mystery novel as if it
were a work of non- fiction, you would misunderstand not only
the intent of the author but the significance of the work.
4.
The same thing is true for the bible. “To understand what
you read you must know what you are reading.”
Sword
Drills: Look up the following passages and notice the
differences in genre .
Poetry:
1.
Psalm 139
2.
Song of Songs 2:9-13
History
1.
1 st Kings 3:4-15
2.
Matthew 8:5-13
Prophesy:
Hosea
4:1-3
Jeremiah
31:31-34
Apocalypse:
Daniel
7:1-7
Revelation
4:6-11
Epistle:
Romans
3:18-21
1
st John 3:1-3
Letter:
1
st Timothy 1:18-19
Titus
3:1-7
How
to read the bible by yourself. Discuss last week's hand out.
Did it help?
1.
Pray
2.
Read the passage and determine the genre
3.
Ask the appropriate interpretive questions: who, what, when,
where, why
4.
Ask the application questions:
•
What does this passage tell me about God?
•
“ “ “ humanity?
•
What is God telling me personally in this passage?
5.Pray.
Review
and discussion (Q and A) of homework: the book of Acts
homework: Philippians
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