• Lesson 1. The Bible
      1. Where does the word “Bible” come from?
      2. Where do the writings of the Bible come from?
      3. What external evidence do we have that the Bible comes from God?
      4. What literary evidence do we have that all the writings of the Bible come from the same supernatural source?
      5. What ethical evidence do we have that the Biblical writers speak the truth?
      6. What psychological evidence do we have that the Bible speaks the truth?
      7. What historical evidence do we have that the Biblical prophets were inspired by God?
      8. What is the main intention behind the creation of oral tradition (Torah be-alpe) besides the written Scriptures (Torah biktav)?
      9. How did the Talmudic rabbis differentiate between the Holy Scriptures and any other document?
      10. What criterion is offered by the Bible to help us distinguish between the divine word and the human word?
      11. How does the “New Testament” refer to the Hebrew Scriptures?
      12. What is the New Testament teaching about the instruction of the Hebrew Scriptures?
      13. What is the message of the Bible?
      14. What is the purpose of the Scriptures?
      15. How should we study the Scriptures (methodology)?
      Reading the Bible after Auschwitz
      The Bible, Book of Books
      History
      Unity
      Truth
      Prophecy
      Old and New Testaments
      Questionnaire 1
  • Lesson 2. The God of Israel
  • Lesson 3. Evil and Suffering
  • Lesson 4. The Messiah I (Why and How?)
  • Lesson 5. The Messiah II (When and Who?)
  • Lesson 6. Israel and the Church
  • Lesson 7. The Torah, The Law of God
  • Lesson 8. The Shabbat
  • Lesson 9. Creation
  • Lesson 10. Eating and Drinking
  • Lesson 11. The Nature of Man
  • Lesson 12. Death
  • Lesson 13. Prophecy and History
  • Lesson 14. Judgment
  • Lesson 15. Life with God
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1. Where does the word “Bible” come from?

The word “Bible” is derived from the Greek word ta-biblia, a translation of the Hebrew term Ha-sefarim meaning “the books” which appears for the first time in Daniel 9:2. This is the name of the Scriptures often given in Tannaitic literature (Meg. 1:8; Git. 4:6; Kelim 15:6, etc.). The Hebrew word was then translated into Greek by the Hellenistic Jews (Letter of Aristeas, the Wisdom of Ben Sira).

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In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, consulted the books concerning the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD that had come to Jeremiah the prophet, were to be the term of Jerusalemʼs desolation - seventy years.
(Daniel 9:2)
(TNK JPS)