ENGL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tanakh, John Wycliffe, Torah

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 260
• Professor: Boyarin Shamma

Document Summary

There are two main forms of the bible, chrisian, and jewish. The chrisian form is longer, and it is more important to the development of english literature and western society. The chrisian bible is divided into two parts: the old testament and the new testament. It is someimes known as the hebrew bible: not all the old testament has hebrew roots however |(some of it was originally writen in greek, the old testament is a more common name in english literature. It was adopted by chrisianity and modiied to form today"s chrisian bible. It is similar, but not the same as the jewish bible. Parts of the old testament: pentateuch (greek for ive books), genesis, exodus c. Joshua esther: poeical and wisdom books: a. Job song of solomon: propheic books: a. Each of these books is divided into chapters and verses.