You Can Understand the Old Testament (2 Simple Ideas Help!).

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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 available free of charge on the BibleProject app at https://classroom-beta.bibleproject.com/introduction-to-the-hebrew-bible.

How can we check out the Old Testament and comprehend the implying its ancient authors planned?

These two easy concepts are at the core of the process.
1. The Old Testament is an ancient text.
2. A text is deliberate literary interaction.

We translate every text we read through the lens of our mental storehouse, or the “encyclopedia” of words, stories, images, and ideas stowed in our memories. The biblical authors have their own encyclopedias from which they produce texts.