整体中的部分, 5误区 1. book-----× its a library, many kind of material 2. pious tale---not pious parables about saints, but real literature about real person; human, not superhuman 3. for children----× very adult topics, rife with pain 4. theology---not a religion book, not about the divine 5. author---many authors during many centuries some jude--- god outside of nature, not be known as a phenomena purpose: know more about bible, learn methods to learn the bible, history inter petition, how it differ from all other peoples around Genesis 1: epic Enuma Elish in Babylonian Genesis 2~3: Epic of Gilgamesh Genesis 6~9: a vision of the prehistoric flood relationship between biblical stories and Ancient Near East tales similarities and differences Sumerian, 3000BC flood-- result of god's demand importance of bible: change others view into their own *ethical standard completely different thing written from 1000 BC to 160 BC deeply influenced Judaism, Christianity and Islam used to be called Tanakh----t-torah way of teaching; n-nevi'im prophet; kh-ketuvim in hebrew- canonization first translation--Septuagint in Greek differences: order of the book became the Old Testament exactly a course studying Hebrew Bible BCE(before the common era)--BC CE(the common era)--AD non-Christian-centric Jewish Study Bible Ancient Near East Kaufman 笔记整理： 课程目标：更多地了解圣经，学习研究圣经的方法，了解圣经和历史的交错部分，了解其与其他民族创作的典籍的不同。本课程中，圣经具体指希伯来圣经。 圣经阅读5注意： 1. 圣经不是一本书而可以看做一座包含多种素材的图书馆，不管从内容还是体裁 2. 圣经不是一部传说故事，讲述的是有关真实人类的真实事件，而非超人类 3. 圣经不是儿童读物，里面包含许多只有成年人才能读懂的伤痛 4. 圣经不是一部神学著作，其并不包含宗教性也不和神圣有关 5. 圣经不是一人写就，其整个创作过程经过数个世纪数位作者之手。 对一部分犹太人而言，神是超脱于自然的，并非自然中的现象可以解释 《创世纪》的学习概要： 1：与巴比伦史诗Enuma Elish的异同与其余关联 2~3：巴比伦史诗 Gilgamesh（吉尔伽美什） 6~9：对史前大洪水的描述 圣经故事和古代近东传说的异同：苏美尔文明（3000BCE）：洪水是神的愤怒导致----圣经将不同文明传说融合，更注重伦理道德上的标准 圣经的写作是从公元前1000~160年整个时期，极深的影响了犹太教、基督教和伊斯兰教 旧约曾被称为Tanakh，大意应该是“圣人的传道圣典”之类。。不确定 Septuagint in Greek 为第一版现在知道的圣经 书的顺序不断改变---成为旧约 不带有宗教性的年代表述方法：BCE(before the common era)--BC CE(the common era)--AD 本课程教材Jewish Study Bible 辅助阅读材料：Ancient Near East 和Kaufman的文章