A Primer On Biblical Studies.A Primer On Biblical Studies John Paul Hozvicka Trafford Publishing 2333 Government Street, Suite 6E, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8T 4P4 15959 Ashland Drive, Brook Park, OH 44142 (author) 1412077079, $13.50 www.trafford.com 1-888-232-4444 An author, theologian, and expert in the Holy Scripts, John Paul Hozvicka sees to provide the non-specialist general reader with an informed and informative introduction to what the Bible has to teach us in "A Primer On Biblical Studies". The Bible as an ancient body of writings is presented in a context that includes antiquarian writing methods, manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. , and other sources of written records. Readers are also informed on how the canonization canonization (kăn'ənĭzā`shən), in the Roman Catholic Church, process by which a person is classified as a saint. It is now performed at Rome alone, although in the Middle Ages and earlier bishops elsewhere used to canonize. of the Bible came about. The apocryphal a·poc·ry·phal adj. 1. Of questionable authorship or authenticity. 2. Erroneous; fictitious: "Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd . . . books that are a part of the Roman Catholic canon but excluded from the Protested canon are explained. Of special note are the chapters on 'The Language of the bible' and Biblical Reference Skills'. Very highly recommended reading for members of all Christian denominations and church affiliations, "A Primer On Biblical Studies" also covers analysis and criticism of biblical literature, the writings of the early church fathers, theology, apologetics apologetics Branch of Christian theology devoted to the intellectual defense of faith. In Protestantism, apologetics is distinguished from polemics, the defense of a particular sect. In Roman Catholicism, apologetics refers to the defense of the whole of Catholic teaching. , and the chronology of the Bible Biblical chronology is the academic discipline of identifying the Gregorian calendar dates for events mentioned by the Bible. The dating of events, from the narrative of Joseph to the times of the Babylonian captivity, are heavily reliant on the related discipline of Egyptian . |
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