Scripture Development Lesson Plan (B10-L1)

Opening Activity

Use one of the two opening questions (if you take 2 weeks to cover the lesson – use a different question per week):

• If you were God and you wanted to give someone and important message, how would you appear to them?
• How would you go about preventing the spreading of Fake News?

Background Info (Teachers)

May not come up in class – but some background information

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Lesson Time

See notes/discussion from powerpoint below

• OT History
  • Discussion Origin + Groupings
• OT uses in NT
  • Discuss how OT points to Christ (Luke 4 / Road to Emmaus)
• Apocrphya
• NT Origins + History
  • Need –> Group Activity
    • Assign one passage to each group (Luke 1, John 20:30-31, 1 Peter 1:12-16)
    • Have each group present what each of those passage say as to why that particular book was written.
  • Syriac Bible
    • Peshitta / Diatessaron
    • Discuss about Translation – minority vs majority opinion
  • Canonization
    • Need for a Canon
    • Early Canon
    • Synods
    • Group Activity – Examine each book of New Testament and see which ones are not written by the Apostles ([msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!)
• Malayalam Bible
  • From the Syriac Peshitta!
  • 1811 -> Gospels (Ramban Bible) (via Philipose Ramban)
  • 1829 -> NT (but removed many Syriac usages)
  • 1841 -> OT+NT  (but removed many Syriac usages)
  • 1936 -> NT (with Syriac usage) via Very Rev. Mathan
  • 1994 -> OT+NT (with Syriac usage) (Vishuda Grandham) via Very Rev Kurian Corepiscopos

Closing / Homework

Quizziz homework or in-class review (link below)

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