Mon 11 Jan 2010
Reserve Reading – Between the Testaments
Posted by S.G.R. Webster under An Introduction to the Old Testament
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The last posting of the semester. Here’s to another great season together in the New Testament.
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What are Targums? I know it says they’re “Aramic translations and paraphrases of the Bible”, but what specifically are they and why are they important to us a Christians?
It says that “pseudepigrapha” means “false title” or “false inscription,” referring to the name of the books. If the name itself is false, then what parts of the book are true that we should look at?
It talks about on page 3 how Jewish leaders asked Rome to come to them to restore order. However, it says the Romans ended up invading their temple and destroying the Jewish state. I just always kinda thought that the Jews and Romans never got along so maybe you could just explain why the Jewish leaders did this.
How great was the control of the Roman rule over the composition of the Sanhedrin? Were the actions of the Sanhedrin obviously influenced by their Roman overseers?
Same as anna’s…that makes no sense to me…if the name itself means false title or false inscription then how can we at all take anything to be true in it?? that just makes no sense to me…
Page 5: It says that both the ceremonial pillar and the moral-ethical pillar were retained by the Jewish people but they slowly gravitated towards moral-ethical and away from ceremonial pillar. What’s that all about?
Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? and what language were they in? also were there many writers or just one? AND do you think the other parts of the Scrolls that werent found are still somewhere out in the world waiting to be found and analyzed by scientists?
It says that ceremonial worship was all but impossible, was that because the temple was gone?
I know that the Roman’s persecuted the Jews but why did the Jews always try to rebel. Why did they not just try to live peacefully.. like, cohesively? Why would people who serve God try to cause disruptions?