REL 10200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Protestantism, Oral Torah
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What is canon : authoritative, the measure of what is authoritative, extra-canonical, apocryphal. Can be applied to any text and from it the canonization process can be discerned. If not official canon, as least recognized informally as such. A process by which things become authoritative. Bible from biblia, greek plural of book . Tanakh: 45 books of the hebrew scriptures: torah, prophets, writings. Torah: the law, 1st 5 books, entire tanakh, oral torah. Christian bible: tanakh: renamed as old testament , new testament: life of jesus and history of early church. Like other books (jowett in hill: inspired by god, a religious issue, assembled by humans, a literary problem. Initially, a way of being religious/ doing religion (harvey: in an educated way, see as a reciprocal relationship between religion and the academy. Rise of dependent curricula: classical history, languages, and literature. To offer a genetic explanation for the accomplished fact .