The Bible 2: Hail to the King of the Jews, Baby!

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The term "Bible" can refer to the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Bible, which contains both the Old and New Testaments. [1]

Notable pseudepigraphal works include the Books of Enoch such as 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, which survives only in Old Slavonic, and 3 Enoch, surviving in Hebrew of the c. fifth century– c. sixth century CE. These are ancient Jewish religious works, traditionally ascribed to the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of the patriarch Noah. The fragment of Enoch found among the Qumran scrolls attest to it being an ancient work. [133] The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) are estimated to date from about 300BCE, and the latest part (Book of Parables) was probably composed at the end of the first century BCE. [134] So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi. 32 He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. 33 The high places, ( AL) however, were not removed, and the people still had not set their hearts on the God of their ancestors. The original autographs, that is, the original Greek writings and manuscripts written by the original authors of the New Testament, have not survived. [176] But, historically, copies of those original autographs exist and were transmitted and preserved in a number of manuscript traditions. The three main textual traditions of the Greek New Testament are sometimes called the Alexandrian text-type (generally minimalist), the Byzantine text-type (generally maximalist), and the Western text-type (occasionally wild). Together they comprise most of the ancient manuscripts. Very early on, Christianity replaced scrolls with codexes, the forerunner of bound books, and by the 3rd century, collections of biblical books began being copied as a set. [177]As the work of translation progressed, the Septuagint expanded: the collection of prophetic writings had various hagiographical works incorporated into it. In addition, some newer books such as the Books of the Maccabees and the Wisdom of Sirach were added. These are among the "apocryphal" books, (books whose authenticity is doubted). The inclusion of these texts, and the claim of some mistranslations, contributed to the Septuagint being seen as a "careless" translation and its eventual rejection as a valid Jewish scriptural text. [119] [120] [i] Nur Masalha argues that genocide is inherent in these commandments, and that they have served as inspirational examples of divine support for slaughtering national opponents. [190] However, the "applicability of the term [genocide] to earlier periods of history" is questioned by sociologists Frank Robert Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn. [191] Since most societies of the past endured and practiced genocide, it was accepted at that time as "being in the nature of life" because of the "coarseness and brutality" of life; the moral condemnation associated with terms like genocide are products of modern morality. [191] :27 The definition of what constitutes violence has broadened considerably over time. [192] :1–2 The Bible reflects how perceptions of violence c Enoch is not part of the biblical canon used by most Jews, apart from Beta Israel. Most Christian denominations and traditions may accept the Books of Enoch as having some historical or theological interest or significance. Part of the Book of Enoch is quoted in the Epistle of Jude and the Book of Hebrews (parts of the New Testament), but Christian denominations generally regard the Books of Enoch as non-canonical. [135] The exceptions to this view are the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. [133] As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes ( AD) against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. 23 The Ammonites ( AE) and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir ( AF) to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another. ( AG) The word βιβλίον itself had the literal meaning of " scroll" and came to be used as the ordinary word for "book". [3] It is the diminutive of βύβλος byblos, "Egyptian papyrus", possibly so called from the name of the Phoenician sea port Byblos (also known as Gebal) from whence Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece. [4]

These books were later called the 'Pentateuch', and tradition attributed them to Moses. Some parts undoubtedly date from that period, but as things changed old laws were updated and new ones produced, and this was the work of later editors over several centuries. The Prophets Shīr Hashshīrīm ( Song of Songs) or (Song of Solomon) שִׁיר הַשִׁירִים ( Passover) is poetry about love and sex. These differing histories produced what modern scholars refer to as recognizable "text types". The four most commonly recognized are Alexandrian, Western, Caesarean, and Byzantine. [52] I am sending you Huram-Abi, ( U) a man of great skill, 14 whose mother was from Dan ( V) and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained ( W) to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue ( X) and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.Send me cedar logs ( F) as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in. 4 Now I am about to build a temple ( G) for the Name of the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense ( H) before him, for setting out the consecrated bread ( I) regularly, and for making burnt offerings ( J) every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, ( K) at the New Moons ( L) and at the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel. The religious texts were compiled by different religious communities into various official collections. The earliest contained the first five books of the Bible. It is called the Torah in Hebrew and the Pentateuch (meaning five books) in Greek; the second oldest part was a collection of narrative histories and prophecies (the Nevi'im); the third collection (the Ketuvim) contains psalms, proverbs, and narrative histories. " Tanakh" is an alternate term for the Hebrew Bible composed of the first letters of those three parts of the Hebrew scriptures: the Torah ("Teaching"), the Nevi'im ("Prophets"), and the Ketuvim ("Writings"). The Masoretic Text is the medieval version of the Tanakh, in Hebrew and Aramaic, that is considered the authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible by modern Rabbinic Judaism. The Septuagint is a Koine Greek translation of the Tanakh from the third and second centuries BC; it largely overlaps with the Hebrew Bible.

Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil ( Y) and wine he promised, 16 and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. ( Z) You can then take them up to Jerusalem.” The Nevi'im tell a story of the rise of the Hebrew monarchy and its division into two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah, focusing on conflicts between the Israelites and other nations, and conflicts among Israelites, specifically, struggles between believers in "the L ORD God" [107] ( Yahweh) and believers in foreign gods, [c] [d] and the criticism of unethical and unjust behaviour of Israelite elites and rulers; [e] [f] [g] in which prophets played a crucial and leading role. It ends with the conquest of the Kingdom of Israel by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, followed by the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah by the neo-Babylonian Empire and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” ( BC) 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number ( BD) that day. The Fellowship of the Believers

Solomon son of David established ( C) himself firmly over his kingdom, for the Lord his God was with ( D) him and made him exceedingly great. ( E) Considered to be scriptures ( sacred, authoritative religious texts), the books were compiled by different religious communities into various biblical canons (official collections of scriptures). [21] The earliest compilation, containing the first five books of the Bible and called the Torah (meaning "law", "instruction", or "teaching") or Pentateuch ("five books"), was accepted as Jewish canon by the fifth century BCE. A second collection of narrative histories and prophesies, called the Nevi'im ("prophets"), was canonized in the third century BCE. A third collection called the Ketuvim ("writings"), containing psalms, proverbs, and narrative histories, was canonized sometime between the second century BCE and the second century CE. [22] These three collections were written mostly in Biblical Hebrew, with some parts in Aramaic, which together form the Hebrew Bible or "TaNaKh" (an abbreviation of "Torah", "Nevi'im", and "Ketuvim"). [23] Hebrew Bible

Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth [ a] and no plant had yet sprung up, ( I) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth ( J) and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams [ b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed ( K) a man [ c] ( L) from the dust ( M) of the ground ( N) and breathed into his nostrils the breath ( O) of life, ( P) and the man became a living being. ( Q) Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, ( Q) whom my father David provided. Pseudepigrapha are works whose authorship is wrongly attributed. A written work can be pseudepigraphical and not be a forgery, as forgeries are intentionally deceptive. With pseudepigrapha, authorship has been mistransmitted for any one of a number of reasons. [131]The Septuagint ("the Translation of the Seventy", also called "the LXX"), is a Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible begun in the late third century BCE. The band performed several of the album's songs on the preceding tour. Songs like "Goodbye, Oh Goodbye", "Cody's Theme", "Golden Eagle", "Small Red Boy", "When I'm A Dead Boy", and "No More Shame, No More Fear, No More Dread" were played live prior to the album announcement. The other events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the annals of Jehu ( AM) son of Hanani, which are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel.