{"id":1525,"date":"2013-03-18T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/jesus-bible-and-the-history-channels-bible.html"},"modified":"2013-03-18T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:50:00","slug":"jesus-bible-and-the-history-channels-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/jesus-bible-and-the-history-channels-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus\u2019 Bible and the History Channel\u2019s Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The third episode of the History Channel\u2019s ratings-shattering series, The Bible, moves from the Israelite scriptures of Judaism and Christianity to the New Testament added by Christians to the canon we share with Judaism. I have previously responded to some of the issues of the series here<\/a> and here <\/a>and here<\/a>. Today I\u2019d like to reflect on some of the differences between the scriptures that Jesus knew and preached and the ones presented and, to some degree, created by the History Channel. (That the scriptures of Jesus were set in Africa \u2013 Egypt and West Asia \u2013 ancient Israel and Canaan and not Europe as their casting claims, must be repeated.)\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>To begin with, there was not a single collection of bound scripture in the time of Jesus. (Not that HC claims that there was.) There were collections of vellum (leather) scrolls \u2013 not papyrus as shown in tonight\u2019s episode. And, all of the scrolls that would become biblical books were not yet in the canon, that is on an authorized table of contents. This passage from Luke identifies the bible as Jesus knew it (or as the author of the gospel knew it, or both):\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>Luke 24:44 Jesus said to his disciples, \u201cThese are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you\u2014that everything written about me in the Torah of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>

<\/span>Jesus is describing the tripartite canon of Judaism in which the Torah (Pentateuch in Greek) is Genesis through Deuteronomy, the Prophets are the Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings \u2013 the latter two being single, double books, the Latter Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Twelve, (Hosea \u2013 Malachi) and, the Writings beginning with the Psalms. (Curiously, the rest of the Writings seem to be in flux: Proverbs, Job, the Song, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel \u2013 not a prophet in Jewish tradition, the double books of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.) Notice all of the scripture from the third division that has not yet made it into the canon by the time of Jesus \u2013 nothing other than Psalms.<\/span>

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