You may place your comments for week 8 in the comments section below.
Also, you may place your course wrap up here too.
For the course wrap up,
Answer the following questions:
1. What was your course about as a whole? (Try to boil it down to one sentence.)
2. What were the major parts of this course? (How was it organized?)
3. What were some of the important words in this course? (How were they used? What did they seem to mean as used in this writing? List at least three.)
4. What further study would you like to do on this topic, or what did you like best or least about your study this time?
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This week I will be reading Chapter 18 titled: The Historical Trustworthiness of the Gospels, and Chapter 19: The Theology of Jesus.
Archaeology, without the invention of cameras and tape recorders it is hard to record history except by what is wriiten that can be found, such as ancient parchments and what we call scrolls, but yet more evidence is needed, answer, archaeology, with this evidence though, we can only come to a better understanding of historical, religious, cultural, and social backgrounds of Jesus' day.
Arcaeology has been very useful in verifying some of the statements in the Bible that were once questioned by liberal scholars.
Hi, Roger, Are you back?
Did you have a safe flight? Is Adam doing well? I figure he is.
God bless.
In chapter nineteen, " The Theology of Jesus", Jesus came with an agenda, he came to announce the arrival of "The Kingdom", High Quality of Ethics for his followers, Fulfillment of the Law, and with the Good News
( The Gospel).
I believe my course as a whole was to establish Jesus with each writer of the Gospels because the different writers were teaching and reading to different sects of Jews, therefore harmony was established.
The course was organized as a survey,using the Bible and writers of the Gospels as main subjects, but also using history, archeology, customs, and theology to explain how Jesus used the Gospel writers.
Some common words to me were not common in the study. Words such as "criticism.
In the course criticism was used as a study tool which was used as a comparison.
veracity was used I think as meaning "genuine".
historicity was another term used quite often in the book, and I think it means the sequence of events pertaining to history.
What I liked about my study is that it taught on subjects that maybe I would not study any other way, what I disliked about the study was too much information and not enough explanation.
Thanks for the course wrap up, Roger.
I will try to get your final grade to you in a day or two.
Very good on the word studies.
"Criticism" was a good example of a common word used in a specialized way.
Historicity is an example of a word being important because of how frequently it occured.
Veracity may have been a word that was slighlty familiar. Your impresion that it meant, "genuine," seems to me like it could fit.
"Something that is true" is one dictionary definition (veracity. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/veracity (accessed: December 22, 2009).)
When I looked up "genuine," one of the synonyms was "true." (genuine. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/genuine (accessed: December 22, 2009).)
So, your guess was pretty good. It was accurate. Just remember the word, "truth," occurs a lot in the definitions too.
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