My Introductions to the Bible
One thing I've been working on over the past two years is writing introductions to every book of the Bible for eCatholicHub.net. After lots of sweat, reading, note-taking, writing, editing and after ecclesiastical approval: here they are. Read them, let me know what you think. My hope is that these introductions will help people get quickly into reading the Bible with a basic understanding. They are purposefully short. I attempt to give the reader a handhold for basic points in every book, so that reading the Bible is not a (primarily) confusing experience. I wrote the introductions from a Catholic perspective mainly for other Catholics. But I think lots of different kinds of people will find them useful. So take a look my introductions to every book of the Bible. Oh yeah, that includes the deutero-canonical books.
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Nice job with your brief introductions to the books of Scripture. I'll share them with my parish Bible Study groups as a supplement to the study guides I wrote for them. Oh, yeah, you can check these out at:
http://www.sumtercatholic.org/BibleStudy.html
Keep up the good work. Blessings and God's peace,
Deacon Dana
That looks like it involved a lot of work!
I'm curious what methodology you used in deciding what to say about the authorship of certain books. For instance, you say that the authorship of the Pentateuch is unknown and present the Documentary Hypothesis briefly. With 2 Peter, you assume that Peter wrote it but mention that some scholars disagree. With the "inauthentic" Pauline letters you simply assume that Paul did write them, contrary to popular opinion. What is the thinking that unites these different approaches?
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