You Can Comprehend the Old Statement (2 Fundamental Concepts…

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This session is from the BibleProject Classroom class Introduction to the Hebrew Bible taught by Dr. Tim Mackie. The whole class is offered absolutely free of charge on the BibleProject app at https://classroom-beta.bibleproject.com/introduction-to-the-hebrew-bible.

How can we have a look at the Old Testament and comprehend the recommending its ancient authors prepared?

These 2 simple ideas are at the core of the procedure.
1. The Old Testament is an ancient text.
2. A text is deliberate literary interaction.

We correspond every text we take a look at the lens of our psychological warehouse, or the “encyclopedia” of words, concepts, images, and stories stowed in our memories. The biblical authors have their own encyclopedias from which they produce texts.