hOW THE bIBLE bECAME THE bIBLE
This 8-week class will be taught by academic and scholar Wayne Philmore LIVE via Zoom.
OUTLINE 8 WEEKS
11/12/24 6:30 PM The First Five Books (Manuscript and Textual Criticism)
How did we get the first five books of the Bible? Learn why Biblical scholars don’t hold to Moses being the author of the first five books and where that idea originated from.
11/19/24 6:30 PM The Documentary Hypothesis, Genesis, Adam and Eve, Israel
The documentary hypothesis is the standard in Biblical Criticism or Biblical scholarship. What is it? How did it form? And how does this model inform Bible scholars on the development of the Torah? How did the Adam and Eve story come to be? How did the story of Israel as read in the text come to be?
11/26/24 6:30 PM Yahweh and El | The Two Gods of Israel, The Earliest Source Texts
Piggy backing off of the Documentary Hypothesis, students will learn about how the evolution of the God of Israel. Students will learn about the Yahwists and the Elohists. How they formed and how they influenced the text of the Hebrew Bible.
12/3/24 6:30 PM The Lying Pen of the Scribes
The Bible talks about “the lying pen of the scribes”. What is that and how does this relate to source text criticism?
12/10/24 The Final Revisions of the Torah
Students will learn how we got the final edition of the Hebrew Bible we now have today. And from there on, how these redactions influenced Jewish thought.
12/17/24 The New Testament, Concepts of Messiah, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Pesher
Students will learn about the development of the concept of Messiah. Students will go through the Dead Sea Scrolls in relation to literary devices like pesher.
12/23/24 The Traditions of the New Testament, Halakah, Aggadah,
Students will learn about the oral traditions of the Jesus narrative. halakah, aggadah, and the evolution of how the 4 Gospels came to be.
(Christmas Break | Curriculum to be announced to class)
In this class, students will explore how the Bible was formed through concepts like the Documentary Hypothesis, which examines multiple sources behind the text, and redaction criticism, which studies how editors shaped and combined these sources. By understanding the processes of compilation, students will learn how historical, cultural, and theological influences led to the development of the Bible as we know it today.
Bible Class: Judaism and the Occult
My books Secrets of the Bible 1, 2, 3 (Reading the Bible with the Mind of an Ancient Israelite) and Bible Miracles Explained: Magic, Miracles, and Ritual Passage will be included as curriculum for this class.
This course consists of four sessions over four weeks, focusing on the intersections of Judaism and the occult.
Outline
Part I | introduction to Judaism’s Esoteric Thoughts and Origins (11/02/24 5:00 PM EST)
Participants will explore Jewish mystery texts (the Talmud, Midrash, etc.), the history of Judaism esotericism, and where these esoteric ideas are at in the Biblical text.
Part II | Jewish Magic (11/09/24 | 5:00 PM, EST)
Participants will explore magic as it relates to Judaism and it’s ancient Near-East Context- how magic worked in the ancient Near-East, magical text in the ancient world that relate to the Hebrew Bible and examining occult practices within Israel.
Part III | Jesus the Esotericist (11/16/24 | 5:00 PM, EST)
Participants will explore Jesus through a Jewish esoteric lens. Participants will examine magical texts from Qumran that parallel to Jesus’ teaching. Participants will examine Jesus’ miracles and analyze and the parallels between Jesus’ miracles and other Jewish rabbis and esotericists in the 1st-Century.
Part IV | The Apostle Paul the Esotericist (11/30/24 | 5:00 PM, EST)
Participants will explore the life and teachings of Paul through a Jewish esoteric lens. Participants will examine Jewish/Talmudic texts that share connections with Paul’s teachings.
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