history-of-bible

1、History of Bible,The Bible is the best-selling book in history with approximate sales estimates ranging from 2.5 billion to 6 billion.,Latin Bible in 1407,,Bible:τ? βιβλ?α, tà biblía, "the books"),The

2、 Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible in 1450s, printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, in present-day Germany,,The Hebrew Bible:39 books. The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, is the main source for the history of ancient I

3、srael. Composed between the 14th and 5th centuries BC, the canonical books recognized by Judaism are traditionally divided into three parts. The Christian Bible: 66 books. The Old and New Testaments together are common

4、ly referred to as “The Holy Bible”.,,The canonical composition of the Jewish Bible is in dispute between Christian groups: History of the Bible Protestants hold only the books of the Hebrew Bible to be canonical; Roman C

5、atholics and Eastern Orthodox additionally consider the deuterocanonical books, a group of Jewish books, to be canonical.,Books of the Bible,,Old Testament,Paradise lost Laws: covenant ( Exodus and especially Deuteronom

6、y《 申命記 》)Themes: salvation, redemption, divine judgment, obedience and disobedience, faith and faithfulness etc.,New Testament,Paradise regainedTeachings and person of Jesus ChristGospels, letters and revelations etc.

7、,,Jesus Christ, meaning “Jesus the Christós ”,i.e. “Jesus, the anointed; or “Jesus, the Messiah” by his followers after his death and believed resurrection.,Read online,http://www.holybible.or.kr/BIBLE_cgb/cgi/bible

8、ftxt.php?VR=0&CI=257&CV=99&KY= (search with key words “ holy Bible” )http://holy.be/,Creation stories,Bible: (male)God→Adam (dust/breathe into his nostril)→Eve (one of the ribs of Adam)Chinese mythology

9、: Pan Gu (out of an egg)and Nv Wa →man out of clay (《風(fēng)俗通義》)Indian Mythology: 1.man is out of a golden egg. 2. all things were made out of the mangled limbs of Purusha, a magnified non-natural man. 3.The universe was cre

10、ated by Brahma, whose birth was attributed to Vishnu in some myths. Brahma was often depicted as sitting on a lotus arising from the navel of Vishnu, who was resting on the cosmic serpent, Ananta.,,Greek mythology: 1.Gai

11、a, the earth mother, emerged from chaos and gave birth to Uranus, the sky. The union of Uranus and Gaia produced plants, animals, and children, the Titans. Imprisoned by their father, the Titans overthrew Uranus, only to

12、 be overthrown by their own children, the gods.2.It tells how a primal goddess emerged from the waters of chaos. Her union with a serpent produced a cosmic egg that split to become the heaven and the earth. Native Ameri

13、can(Omaha people): a huge boulder rose out of the water and exploded with a roar and a burst of flame that dried the water. Land appeared. The spirits of plants settled on earth. Animal spirits followed. Finally the spir

14、its of people took bodily form on earth.,,Egypt:The ancient Egyptians believed that before the world existed there was only Nun, the watery nothingness. Then a mound of land rose, giving the first deity a place to live.

15、In some accounts, the first deity took the form of a bird. Others said that a lotus flower containing a god rose from the water. Cults developed around several Egyptian creator gods: Amun and Atum, the sun gods; Khnum, w

16、ho made men and women from clay and breathed life into them; and Ptah, who created the other gods by saying their names.,,Norse creation myths: tell how the giant Ymir took shape in the huge icy emptiness called Ginnunga

17、gap. Ymir's great cow licked the ice, creating the first gods, including Odin . The gods killed Ymir and divided his body into a series of worlds on three levels: Asgard, the realm of gods; Midgard, the realm of peo

18、ple, giants, dwarfs, and elves; and Niflheim, the realm of the dead. The gods created the first man and woman from an ash tree and an elm tree. (The creation of people from trees has a parallel in Native American stories

19、 about Gluskap making man from an ash trunk.),Expulsion,,,Road to Heaven,,Michelangelo’s Pieta(圣母憐子圖),Raphael,,Vatican（梵蒂岡）,Thomas Aquinas(1225-1274),5-14 years old: He was in the Abbey of Monte Cassino to study (Benedic

20、tine) 14: he entered the University of Naples and became a Dominican1245: He entered the University of Paris under the influence of Albertus Magnus1259-1268: teaching under the auspecies of the Papal Court1268-1274:

21、he was in Paris.1274:He died on his way to Lyons.,,14th century,15th century,,His achievement: he brought together the insights of classical philosophy and Christian theology.His philosophy stands out for its inheritan

22、ce from Aristotle.13th century: conflict between Augustinians and Thomists.He perfected the “scholastic method” by answering the major objections to his Aristotelian-Christian solutions.,In search of the truth,,1st pro