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How We Got The Bible

 

The following lessons were the handouts during our Wednesday evening class on How We Got The Bible. The lessons are taken from a book with the same title by Neil Lightfoot:

How We Got the Bible

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Click on each of the following links to download a Word version of the lessons.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2 Part I: History of the Bible

Lesson 2 Part II: History of the Bible

Lesson 3: New Testament Manuscripts

Lesson 4: Textual Criticism

Lesson 5: The Text of the Old Testament

Lesson 6: The Canon of the Scriptures

Lesson 7: The Apocryphal Books

Lesson 8: The English Bible to 1611

Lesson 9: Review & Reference Sheet for the class

Lesson 10: Translations

 


 
   
 
Our Aim
"Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him."
— II Corinthians 5:9
Our Plea
"Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool."
— Isaiah 1:18
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