The Making of the Old Testament Books (Remastered)

About this episode

Tim explores the making of the books of the Old Testament and their historical context in the first lecture of a three-part series.

Making of the Bible E1 — Many people who view the Bible as God’s word believe it must have come into existence with little or no human agency. But this idea is foreign to the biblical authors and to Scripture’s very traceable history. It was not written in secret! The authors of these texts were, of course, human. However, they also claimed God was speaking to his people through these human words. In this first lecture of a three-part series, Tim explores the making of the books of the Old Testament and what we can know from the Bible itself about how it came into existence. Tim gave this series of lectures in February 2012 at Blackhawk Church in Madison, Wisconsin.

People in this episode

Host: Tim

Topics covered

• Old Testament
• Bible
• human authorship
• Scripture history

Keywords

• making of the Bible
• biblical authors
• God's word
• Blackhawk Church

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Bible, Scripture, the Old Testament

Places: Madison, Wisconsin

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