REL 1004 : STUDY GUIDE FOR FIRST TEST
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Questions will be multiple choices or fill in the blank, plus 8 to 10 questions that will be short answer (partial credit and spelling doesn"t count). Canon: know the formal definition of the canon of the bible, according to the class lecture. Fixed list of books, jews and christians regard it as sacred and authoritative: review the jewish canon of the bible. How many books are in it? (39) be able to list the three main sections in their sequential order. 24 books divided in 39; torah, prophets, writings: know that the rabbis in palestine fixed the jewish canon sometime during the second century ce. (100-200 ce). Arranged differently and contains an additional 7 books (based on the septuagint called the deuteron-canonical books) What are the deutero-canonical books? (you need not be able to list them, but you ought to know generally what they are. ) Books in the catholic ot but not in the jewish canon.
