RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nissan Mid4, Pauline Epistles, Septuagint

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: John H.Young

Document Summary

Bible very important to all christian groups, though some place greater importance on it than others. Bible often referred to by christians as the scriptures. The term scripture usually is a short hand way christians have of referring to a portion of the. Jesus was a jew; all his immediate followers were jewish. The result: jewish bible (the tanakh) were the scriptures for the early christians: what christians call the new testament developed later, new testament books written beginning in the late 40s c. e. ; later books in the new testament come from late 1st or early 2nd century, c. e. All christian groups accept the tanakh (the bible of judaism) as scripture or sacred text; most. Christian groups refer to this portion of scripture as the old testament. The 24 books of are arranged in a different order in the christian bible and some books in the. Bible of judaism are sub-divided in the christian old testament.