Divine Revelation and ScriptureUNDERSTANDING HOLY SCRIPTURE SESSION 1

1. Foundations of Catholic Theology

2. Intro to the New Testament3. Intro to the Old Testament4. Christology5. Ecclesiology6. Theology of the Sacraments7. The Trinity8. Moral Theology9. Theology of Grace10.Master’s Thesis (Images of the

Church in the women of Scripture)

11.Theology of the Body

Bible study leader

RCIA catechist

Master’s in Theology @ St. Joseph’s College of Maine

Grace Strother

1. Divine Revelation & Scripture2. The Story of Salvation3. Genres & Context: Old Testament Part 14. Genres & Context: Old Testament Part 25. Genres & Context: New Testament6. Senses of Scripture

Sessions

Dei Verbum: Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, 1965Second Vatican Council

Divine Revelation and Scripture

How do we know about God?

Romans 1:13-23Reason

Revelation:PrivatePublic

The Covenants (Testaments)

Old Covenant:Law, prophets, wisdom literature of Israel

New Covenant:Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh (John 1:14)

Matthew 5:17-20

Sources of Revelation

Sacred TraditionMatthew 28:16-202 Thessalonians 2:1-2, 11-15

MagisteriumActs 15:1-212 Peter 1:12-21

Sacred Scripture2 Timothy 3:10-17Dei Verbum 11

Where did the Bible come from?

ta biblia = the books

AuthorshipOld Testament•12th to 2nd centuries B.C.

•# books disputed•Catholics: 46•Mostly Hebrew, also Aramaic and Greek

New Testament•1st and early 2ndcentury A.D.

•27 books•Greek

Cannon?

Nope.

Canon

MatthewMarkLukeJohn

Romans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians

1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemon

MatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemon1 Peter1 John

Gospel of ThomasGospel of MaryGospel of PeterGospel of BarnabasThe Acts of Paul and TheclaThe DidacheFirst Epistle of ClementThe Shepherd of Hermas

HebrewsJames2 Peter2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation

OrthodoxUniversalLiturgicalApostolic

Criteria for Canonicity

Late 4th century

46Old Testament

27New Testament

Tobit

Judith

Wisdom of Solomon

Sirach

Baruch

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

Additions to Esther

Additions to Daniel

Deuterocanonical Books

Magisterium

Sacred ScriptureSacred Tradition

Translation

Formal equivalence (precision)

Dynamic equivalence (readability)

Revised Standard Version Catholic

Edition (RSVCE)

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

Revised Standard

Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

New Revised Standard

Version Catholic Edition

(NRSVCE)

New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Revised Standard

Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

New Revised Standard

Version Catholic Edition

(NRSVCE)

New American Bible Revised

Edition (NABRE)

New American Bible Revised Edition

Revised Standard

Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

New Revised Standard

Version Catholic Edition

(NRSVCE)

New American Bible Revised

Edition (NABRE)

New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)

New Jerusalem Bible

“And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for ‘we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying.’”—Dei Verbum 26 quoting St. Ambrose

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