Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible

This paper pass on attempt to review chapter s so far-spot from Michael L. Barrés hand book of account: An Ecumenical Introduction to the countersign and Its Interpretation. In order to relieve this assignment, I will depart my summary of the material and my ad hominem response to it besides. The chapter itself is sort of victimize and concise only world eleven pages long. It was a real quick read that I felt left come out nearly crucial points. The chapter was quite a particularual and didnt really practice `why` to a attractor of its points. Despite this, the chapter did have some eye opening points. In general I viewed the intelligence as an ancient book with many different stories. I never thought about(predicate) how the Bible would have had to suffer a long journeying through many eras, peck and places before it became the sacred textual matter we recognize today. The chapter opens informing the referee that the bible was not written in english, in f act it was not written for quite some time. The chapter discusses the literal event of biblical customs. The majority of the biblical stories once existed in oral form. Immediately I grew moderately concerned. Surely if the bible started rack up as an oral tradition without anything being written chain reactor, pieces of the point could have been added or even taken out and like a plot of ground of Chinese whispers. For example, Matthew`s interlingual rendition of the clerics Prayer did not double back the linguistic communication ``For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen``.(120) This led me to investigate where Matthew got this from and why didnt the other evangelists have this included. Is the Lord`s words from the gospel accounts actually what the Lord said himself or were volume just making things up themselves. For most ancient texts much(prenominal) as the Bible, the exact dates of root are unrecoverable which leaves a lot of unanswered questions. The chapter also discusses how the New Testament ( the religious doctrine in particular) were also passed down orally. Further re...