PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pauline Epistles, Ketuvim, Torah
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Test one (gen-2 kings) what these terms mean: what are the parts of the old testament? (torah, nevi"im, kethuvm). The torah or pentateuch are the first five books of the bible genesis, exodus, The nevi"im (means prophets in hebrew) contains the historical accounts of jewish history in the jewish tanakh or canon. The new testament contains information on the life of jesus and his followers. The old testament is written in hebrew and aramaic. The new testament was written in koine greek, also known as common greek because most of the people living in greece at that time were not well educated and could only read koine. It is so difficult to truly understand the bible because it can be interpreted in so many different ways. There have been so many changes in political contexts from. Egypt, assyria, babylonia, persia, hellenistic society and rome that it has been changed and interpreted differently in each changing of the hands.
