Where We Got the Bible

Taught as a course, Spring 1993

Purpose:

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a basic working knowledge of the issues and information regarding the Bible as we now have it, traced historically from ancient to modern times.

Course Outline:

Authority. Issues of Inspiration and Inerrancy and Infallability
Canon, Texts, and Apocrypha
1. Old Testament
2. New Testament
Translation, Languages and History
The Bible as a Literary Work

Suggested Schedule:

Week 1	Introduction, Authority, Inspiration, Innerrancy and Infallability
Week 2	OT Authorship, Canon, Texts, and Apocrypha
Week 3	NT Authorship, Canon, Authorship, and Texts
Week 4	NT Apocrypha; Issues in Translation; Biblical Languages
Week 5	History and Versions of the Bible; Bible as a Literary Work; Conclusions

Resources:

Conservative, Moderate, Liberal; the Biblical Authority Debate, Blaisdell (ed.)
Inerrancy and the Church, Hannah (ed.)
Origin of the Bible, Comfort (ed.)
Canon of Scripture, F. F. Bruce
Canon and Masorah of the Hebrew Bible, Orlinsky (ed.)
Canon of the New Testament, Metzger
Text of the New Testament, 2nd Edition, Aland and Aland
The above listed books do not constitute a complete list of resources used in preparing this course. Rather, these are informative resources that capture the heart of portions of the course.

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