INTRODUCTION:

BIBLE

Kaloob:
Erlinda
Bragado and
Arnold
Monera

BIBLE IS A BOOK OF SHARED

MEMORIES
Community
Gathering/
Reunion
Remembering
the story of
God and his
saving
goodness is an
obligation
Deut 8,2

Record of peoples past experiences

woven into a life-story.
Story of Gods dealing with his people /
history of the people of Israel like the
Passover in Exodus event
Jews and Christians sense of identity
and destiny of God sharing His life with
the people

BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD

Divine Revelation in
human expression.
Word of God in the
words of men
DV 21 the Father
who is n heaven
comes lovingly to
meet his children
and converses with
them.

BIBLE AS MEANS OF DIVINE

REVELATION
Pagpapakilala
Invites us into a
deeper encounter
with the divine
self-gift
Faith as Response
(paul tillich)

DEI VERBUM
REVELATION ITSELF
2. In His goodness and wisdom God chose to reveal Himself and
to make known to us the hidden purpose of His will (see Eph.
1:9) by which through Christ, the Word made flesh, man might
in the Holy Spirit have access to the Father and come to share
in the divine nature (see Eph. 2:18; 2 Peter 1:4). Through this
revelation, therefore, the invisible God (see Col. 1;15, 1 Tim.
1:17) out of the abundance of His love speaks to men as friends
(see Ex. 33:11; John 15:14-15) and lives among them (see Bar.
3:38), so that He may invite and take them into fellowship with
Himself. This plan of revelation is realized by deeds and words
having an inner unity: the deeds wrought by God in the history
of salvation manifest and confirm the teaching and realities
signified by the words, while the words proclaim the deeds and
clarify the mystery contained in them. By this revelation then,
the deepest truth about God and the salvation of man shines

BIBLE AS LIBRARY OF BOOKS

Books of diff erent literary genres,
written at diff erent times and diff erent
places and for varied situations
Need to be studied across years of
history and contexts
Rule of faith, moral integrity and
worship for Jews and Christians

ETYMOLOGY
Bible
Greek, ta biblia
(plural) which
means The Books
Greek, biblion
(singular) denotes
any kind of written
document, but
originally written
on papyrus

OTHER SOURCES BEFORE

PATCHMENTS

In ancient times,
papyri/parchmen
ts joined
together in long
strips
Scribes wound
strips on two
rods roll called
biblion

DIVISION: OLD AND NEW

TESTAMENTS
Latin, testamentum
Greek, diatheke which means covenant
Filipino, tipan which means an alliance that
requires commitment and fi delity
Old Testament narrates the history of Israel
New Testament and Old Testament as
Christian Bible, came into use in 2 n d
Century CE

OLD TESTAMENT
Story of Gods participation in the history
of Israel and its people
Deut 14, 2.
Covenant, I will be their God and they
shall be my people. Ezek 37,27; Jer 32, 38
Yahweh as King of the tribes of Israel
(theocracy)

OLD TESTAMENT THEME

Deliverance of Israel from Egyptian captivity
under Moses who received at Mt. Sinai the
exact terms of a covenant given by God to
Abraham
Made Israelites into one people, One People
One Nation One God (Unity of People /
diff erent tribes)
Divine Election as vocation vis--vis peoples
infi delity to the covenant unfaithful to Yahweh

God allowed His chosen people to learn their

lesson from being unfaithful
Israel became a subject/slaves of other nations.
Northern tribes (Israel) fell into the hands of
Assyrians in 721 BCE
Southern tribes (Judah) into the hands of
Babylonians in 587 BCE
Babylonian captivity
A People without a Nation/Home - Slaves

 However, God did not abandon His People. He sent

prophets as messengers
Summary
The Old Testament refl ects Gods revelation of
Himself, his plan of salvation.
God is continuously active and present to His chosen
people of Israel

NEW TESTAMENT
Documents of the New Covenant personifi ed and
revealed to us in Jesus fulness of Gods revelation
Deliverance of all humanity not just Israel from sin
and death by faith in the cross and resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
Old Testament/JEWS awaits the coming of the Messiah
(OT). While Christians affi rm that Jesus as the
Messiah as told in the New Testament.
Old does not mean antiquate, irrelevant . . . It should
be understood as ancient, earlier or preceding

NT COMPLEMENTS OT