Thesis Chapters by Nkonde Rashid
ST. DOMINIC'S MAJOR SEMINARY LECTURE NOTES A. A study of Paul's first letter to the Galatians St.... more ST. DOMINIC'S MAJOR SEMINARY LECTURE NOTES A. A study of Paul's first letter to the Galatians St. Paul's Letter to the Churches in Galatia is often considered the most Pauline of all Pauline writing. According to Raymond Brown, it is one single piece in which anger probably caused Paul to say what he really thought. As such, it has a prophetic slant like that of Amos. Paul opted to talk straight and radically challenge the Galatians. 1.0. The Historical Background 1.1. Galatia: 2.0. Some Key Literary Features of the Letter 2.1. Authorship: In terms of authorship, Galatians is generally considered to be genuinely Pauline. Very few scholars have any serious doubt that St. Paul is the author behind this writing. 2.2. Date: Just as the location of the Galatian churches is under dispute, so too the time and place of writing can be determined only with probability. Since the majority favour the view that Paul is writing to the Churches in the north, it also seems probable that he wrote this letter shortly after his second visit to them (Acts 18:23), while at Ephesus
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Ndola press, 2023
Lesson 3: Bible books: 73 or 66? The Deuterocanonical books or the Apocrypha? Seven books of the ... more Lesson 3: Bible books: 73 or 66? The Deuterocanonical books or the Apocrypha? Seven books of the Bible and small portions of Esther and Daniel which are not present in the Hebrew Bible of the Jews nor in modern Protestant Bibles are called Apocrypha (meaning non-inspired), by the Protestants and Deuterocanonical books by Catholics. They are 1) Judith, 2) Baruch, 3) Sirach (Ecclesiastes), 4) Wisdom, 5) Tobit, 6) Maccabees I and 7) Maccabees II. Further, additions to Esther (Vulgate Esther 10:4-16:24) and additions to Daniel: (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, Bel and the Dragon) are also considered Apocrypha by the Protestants. These are books and passages of the Christian Old Testament that are not part of the Hebrew Bible. But they were part of the ancient (completed 100 BC), Greek translation (Septuagint) of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish Bible in Hebrew), for the use of Greek-speaking Jews living outside Palestine. The Septuagint was a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures done for the Alexandrian Jews by 70 Bible experts sent from Jerusalem, during the 2nd and 1st Century B.C. Since, out of the approximately 340 New Testament references to the Old Testament, 300 are from the Septuagint, the Bible of the early Church always included them. Early Christians read the Greek translation of the Old Testament, in the Septuagint, which included the seven Deuterocanonical books. Hence, these books are considered canonical by Roman Catholics. But they are considered non-canonical and not inspired by most Protestants. Since the Hebrew Bible is older than the Septuagint Bible, the list of books in the former is called the first canon (Protocanonical books), while the catalog of books in the Septuagint is called the second canon or Deuterocanonical books. Since the additional books were of comparatively recent origin and since some of them were written in Greek-the language of paganism-they naturally aroused the opposition of the first century Jews.
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