ENGLIT 0597 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Torah
Document Summary
King james version (1611) of the bible is the most influential translation of the bible beautiful language but outdated. Not a cohesive type of work written over 1100 years. The term bible comes from the greek work biblia (little books) Bible is the correct term for this specific literature rather than a bible which is a more modern term. Christian bible (hebrew + new testament = 66 books); protestant uses a different order of books than the hebrew. Roman catholic (hebrew bible + new testament + 7 old testament books + additions to esther and daniel deuterocanoical (second cannon) or apocryhal books = 73 books + additions) Greek orthodox (hebrew book & apocrypha + new testament + 3 old testament and psalms = Canon official set of authoritative works (both positive and negative), it includes certain works but excludes other. Apocrypha hidden books , potentially of value but not sacred and uncertain origin.
