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
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 ( )
- Need –> Group Activity
- 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)