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MODULE 1

LESSON 1
INTRODUCTION TO THE SACRED
SCRIPTURE
READING THE BIBLE

• Make reading the BIBLE part of your daily prayer life.


• Reading these inspired words, you grow deeper in
your relationship with GOD and come to understand
your place in the community God has called you to
in Himself.
• The Bible is the story of God's relationship with the
people he has called to himself.
WHAT IS THE BIBLE ALL ABOUT?

• etymologically, the word “Bible” is derived from the


Latin term “Biblia,” which means “books.”
• collections of written materials were called “biblia” by
the Greeks.
• “Biblia” denotes all the books of the Old and New
Testaments.
• Bible is God’s revelation, meaning God’s word in
written form.
All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for
refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who
belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work
(2 timothy3:16-17).

The Bible is special communication of God.


The Christian Scriptures provide basic guidelines of moral
conduct.
DIVINE INSPIRATION

1) In composing the sacred books, God chose men and


while employed by him,
2) they made use of their powers and abilities, so that with
him acting in them and through them,
3) they, as true authors, consigned to writing everything
and only those things which he wanted (Dei Verbum 11).
4) The books of the Scripture must be acknowledged as
teaching solidly, faithfully, and without error that TRUTH
which God wanted put into sacred writings
5) for the sake of salvation.
Biblical inspiration is derived from a
word which means “breathed in” –God
himself guided The human authors
who wrote the books of the Bible
whose intellects were enlightened
directly by the action of Holy Spirit to
write what God wanted them to write
without, however, impairing their
freedom (Hahn, 2004, p. 7).
God is the principal author of
Scripture, and the human authors also
as real authors because they acted as
free and intelligent instruments of the
NERRANCY OF SACRED SCRIPTURE

The Bible contains no error.


• literally, “inerrant” means does not err.
This means, according to Hahn (2004),
that “Scripture teaches truth, never error”
• “the Bible, according to Knox (2011), is
free from error in those religious
affirmations that are made for the sake of
our salvation.”
B. CANON OF SACRED SCRIPTURE

Books of the Bible are often


referred to as canonical
books.
• canon is the Greek for
“rule” or “norm.”
• The word “canon” also
came to mean “list.” The
canon is the list of books,
both the Old testament
and New testament, that
the Church recognizes as
TWO VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES:

1. ALEXANDRIAN CANON OR SEPTUAGINT:


• the Greek translation of the
Hebrew.
• the Catholic Church accepted all
the books of the Septuagint as
canonical that constitute the Old
Testament (Knox, 2011, pp. 93 –
94).
• it has a total of forty-six (46) books.
2. PALESTINIAN CANON
• This canon excluded books that were written in
Greek or Aramaic. it has thirty-nine (39) books. This
is still the canon accepted by Jews today. When the
protestants in the 16th century started making
translations from the original Hebrew, they used
the Palestinian canon (Knox, 2011, p. 94).
DEUTEROCANONICAL BOOKS

• These are seven (7) books that make up the


difference between the Alexandrian canon
and Palestinian canon
• ”Second canon”—to show that they are not
accepted in the Jewish canon. (1 and 2
Maccabees, Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach,
And Wisdom). Many protestant editions of
the bible, however, include these books at
the end under the title “apocrypha.”
C. DIVISIONS OF THE BIBLE

1. Old Testament 2. New Testament


This part of the Bible contains
The word comes from the Latin
historical writings, stories, “testamentum”, meaning
poetry, songs, writings on “formal agreement, or
human wisdom, writings on covenant between two (2)
prophecy that span the whole parties. “Old Testament” was
extent of the Jewish life. The first introduced by Tertullian
(ca 200 ad) to refer to the
Old Testament is also called Jewish Scripture and “New
the Jewish Scripture. Testament” to the Christian
Scripture.
Approaches of Interpreting
D. INTERPRETATION
the Sacred Scriptures
OF SACRED
1. Exegesis
SCRIPTURE
• exegesis is the exposition of a text
based on a careful, objective
analysis.
• exegesis literally means “to lead out
of.” that means that the interpreter
is led to his conclusions by following
the text.
• exegesis is an act of love. It is
loving God enough to stop and listen
carefully.
2. Eisegesis
It is the interpretation of a passage based
on a subjective, non-analytical reading. the
word eisegesis literally means “to lead
into,” which means the interpreter injects
his own ideas into the text, making it mean
whatever he wants.
FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN INTERPRETING
SACRED SCRIPTURES (CFC 92-96):

1. The inspired human author’s intention


2. The text itself
3. The reader of the text
4. The common horizon connecting the original
community context of the text with our
community reading today.

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