Course Texts for Saint Michael's Basic Training - Biblical Context

Below are the course texts for Saint Michael's Basic Training - Biblical Context class. A number of these files are Adobe .PDF files, and can be viewed with the free Acrobat reader, available here.

• Introduction
• Kipling's Six for the books of the Bible
• Corporate Authorship
• The Tanakh
• Old Testament Overview
• New Testament Overview
• Books of the Tanakh and the New and Old Testaments
• The Christian Old Testament
• Historical Dates and Events
• King and Prophets
• Map of the Levant c 830 BC
• Map of the Middle East
• Map of the Unified Kingdom
• Mosaic Authorship and the Documentary (JEDP) Hypothesis
• Scriptural Links Between the Old and New Testaments
• The Synoptic Gospels & the Synoptic Problem
• Relationships between the Synoptic Gospels
• The Fourth Gospel
• High vs Low Christology
• LXX, Jamnia, Masoretic & Qumran
• Chronology of Paul's Letters
• Chronology of Paul's Missions and Death
• Map of the journeys of paul
• Pauline Authorship
• Important Dates and Events for the Development of the Canon