16 Sep Discuss some of the issues around translating the Bible
Order Instructions
Answer these discussion or questions.
1.Discuss some of the issues around translating the Bible. (Contemporary Language and New Translations of the Bible: The Impact of Feminism,” Religion & Public Education 17/1 [Winter 1990] 89-98.)
2.What is a “canon,” as this term is used in religious studies? Discuss the categories of the Hebrew Bible. You can get the correct spellings from the HarperCollins Bible.
3.Summarize the contents of Apocrypha books we talked about in the video, and speak briefly to the role of these books in the Jewish and Christian tradition.
4.What is the pseudepigrapha and how do these writings help in critically understanding the Hebrew Bible?
Summarize some of the features of this map that I talked about in class. Fertile Crescent. (find this map in the HarperCollins Bible you purchased)
5.Summarize some of the features of this map that I talked about in class. Palestine. (find this map in the HarperCollins Bible you purchased)
6.Summarize in broad outline the story of the Hebrew people up to the time of Christ, noting along the way the books which treat the various parts of this story.
