 Great. So I'm sharing the presentation with you before we begin our class. The course content has been divided into five sections. The first one is the Hebrew Bible, which introduces us to the Hebrew Bible of the Old Testament. And the second module we will be talking about the Old Testament, the Pentateuch or the law. There's the five books of the Bible, which is also called as the Pentateuch. And the third module takes us through the history of Israel from Joshua to Esther. And we call this as the history books. And the fourth is the wisdom books or the poetry, which gives the survey of the wisdom literature, starting with the book of Job until the song of Solomon. And the fifth and six are the major and the minor prophets, where we will be doing a survey from the book of Isaiah till Malachi. That is the last book of the Old Testament. Mr. Isaac, would you like to share something? Yes, thank you. So we will be doing a survey, not by verse to verse study. We will be going through the key verses and events and themes to see the bigger picture of the scripture at the major moments, which is in each of these 39 books of the Old Testament. And the Old Testament will have, we will be doing an overview with cover background, the introduction of the author, the date of writing, the very purpose of writing of this book and the theme and outline extra. We would be starting including the shadow of Christ in these books. Mr. Isaac, can you please mute your mic? I understand there's a problem with your microphone, but if you could mute or if you want to share something, you can type it on the chat. Okay, we will be using the following text book, the PDF version, which has been shared with you all, and we would be navigating from each book to book. And we will encourage you all to keep your personal Bible and the book throughout the course so that you can study and note down the important points. There would be two assessment in this course. One would be at the end of September, we call it as midterm, and the other would be at the end of November, that is during the end of the course, as you complete the course, the last week of November, and it will be graded. There would be a grade at least we need to get more than 35% is what is expected, but we need to get more than that so that we can clear this course or pass. So do you all have any questions as we go through it? Do you all have any questions? No, ma'am. Thank you. President Dayana, I was just looking, whether the course material has been shared in the Google classroom? Yes, it's on the Google stream. You can go and download it from there. Okay, okay, thank you. Okay, yes. Okay, there's a text message. The assessment format. Okay, the assessment format can be the presentation on the books that we covered till then. For example, if we are giving an assessment at the month of September, so from August till September, which are the books that we are covered, we would like to maybe y'all can present on each book. Okay, we would be assigning each person the particular book that you could research and present it to the class and depending on your research and the presentation, you will be assessed and graded on that. And the same we will do at the end of November. Good question. The next is, do we need to take printout of the books? See what is comfortable to you, Jeffy. Now, if you feel a hard copy is better, you can take a printout. Or if you're able to manage with the soft copy, you can go ahead with the PDF version on your laptop. Yes. Any other questions before we could begin with the introduction of the Old Testament? Any questions? Okay, do we need to have any kind of reference books or any support material? Yes, it would be good when we give you the assignments on research and when we ask you to present the assignment, you can use any other reference book. Or you can research directly on the Internet. And more we research, more we read, it is better. We increase our knowledge in that particular book. Okay, we'll be getting the hard copy of the book. If we had in-person classes, yes, we would have given you all a hard copy of the book, because we are online. As much as possible, we are trying to avoid any kind of contact. So maybe you can take a printout of the book Titus. Rebecca, today you can listen to the class and study through. We will give you the assignment maybe two weeks ahead. We will give you two weeks ahead on which book you need to prepare your assignment on so that you will have at least two weeks to prepare for your assignment or prepare before you could present that particular book. For now you can go through the class so you will have an idea like how you need to prepare and how you need to present it. Okay, if there are no questions, we can go ahead with the class. Okay, the introduction to the Old Testament survey is, the Bible is the inspired Word of God written by 40 different authors over the course of 1500 years. The Hebrew Bible of the Old Testament was written by several authors ranging roughly from 15 to 15th century BC in the Hebrew language with small segments written in Aramaic. Most of the original were written on the papyrus which lasts longer than today's paper but nevertheless decays. Finding a document older than 1000 years is a rare event. It must be been preserved in a very special way. That's what we see and we also don't have any originals at this point. What we have is only the copies which has been preserved. Knowing this we may be wondering whether the document we have are really the same as the original text. We will go through the rest of the class. I'm just reading a portion of what has been written and the history like how they retained and how did they find these scrolls. After the destruction of the Jerusalem at the exile of the Jews in 587 or 6 BC, not even a single earlier manuscript survived the Samaritan Pentateuch from the 11th century AD was thought to be the earliest surviving form of the Hebrew text. However, it differs from the Orthodox Jewish text in some 6000 places. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provided the manuscripts dated with 150 BC to AD 75 and became the text witness to the Hebrew text. We find a fragment of every book of this Old Testament except the Esther in these scrolls. All these agree with the received text of the Old Testament except for the orthographic variations or occasional variant reading hardly affecting the sense of the text. Here we have to study on the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible is also known as the Hebrew Scripture. One second, let me share on that. Hebrew Bible also called as the Hebrew Scriptures which is from the Old Testament or Tanakh collection of writings that was first compiled and preserved as a sacred books of the Jewish people and it also constitutes a large portion of a Christian Bible. The Hebrew Canon contains 24 books, one for each of the scrolls on which these works were written in the ancient times. The Hebrew Bible is organized into the three main sections. The first is the Torah or teaching also called as the Pentateuch or the first five books of Moses. The second is called the Nevin or prophets, the book of prophets. The major and the minor prophets are covered in this. And the third is Ketivim or the writings, the historic writings from the Bible. It is often referred to as the Tanakh, a word combining the first letter from the names of each of these three main divisions like Tanakh is named as T-A-N-A-K-H. From Torah and the next is Nevin and Ketivim. So this is how they have named the book as Tanakh and each of these three main groups of texts is further subdivided. The Torah contains the narratives combined with rules and instructions and the first five books that the Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. And the books in Nevin are categorized among either the former prophets, which contains the antidote about major Hebrew persons and includes Joshua, Samuel, the first and second Samuel and the first and second Kings or the later prophets which exhort Israel to return to God and are named because they are either attributed or contain stories about them. For Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and together in one book known as the Book of the Twelve, the Twelve Minor Prophets from Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Saphoniah, Haggai, Zechariah and it goes up till Malachi which is the last book of the Old Testament. The last of the three divisions, the Ketavim contains the poetry that is the devotional and the Herodic theology. It has a drama in a book of Job and Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Attributes to the King Solomon and then we have Ruth, Lamentation, Ecclesiastus, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nahumiah and Chronicles come under this particular section, Ketavim. So many Christians refer to the Hebrew Bible as the Old Testament. The prophecy foretelling the advent of Jesus Christ has God appointed Isaiah. So the compiling of the books, we may have a question, how did all these books in the Old Testament where compiled? So we are done with this, I just put this three so that we get clear of these three sections in the Hebrew Bible. So we may have questions like how did they put across all these books together? Eventually Christian church leaders cross the worldwide gathered to answer major questions including, which book should be regarded as scripture? These gatherings included the Council of Nessia, Nicea in AD 325 and the first council of the Count's Tantinople in 381 AD, which decided a book should be included in the Bible it was. So the first is is which was written they they considered over the three points first was it written by Jesus disciples or someone was a witness to Jesus ministry such as like Peter or someone who interviewed eyewitness such as Luke or so the second point they considered it as it should be in the first century AD meaning the book written long after the events of Jesus life and the first decade of the church weren't included the third point they considered was consistent with the other portion of the Bible known to be validated meaning the book could not contradict a trusted element of scripture so by this time the first century AD ended and most of the church had agreed on which book should be considered as scriptures so the they formed the Canon the earliest members took guidance from the writing of Peter Paul Matthew John the the the direct disciples who had witnessed Jesus together so they had considered these books then later the council and there were a lot of debates and agreements were largely used in weeding out the inferior books that claim the same authority and settled with which book should be included in the Bible and not and a few years later Jerome published a single published a single volume in Latin language and this edition of the Bible is commonly referred to as the Vulgate Bible note Jerome wasn't the first to select all 66 books that we know today as Bible but he was the first to translate and compile everything in a single volume now the important point here is the name Old Testament how did we get it the name Old Testament was devised by a Christian Melito of Sardis about in 170 AD to distinguish this part of the Bible from the writings that were eventually recognized as the New Testament the Gospel of Jesus Christ been presenting the history of the early Christian church so we also see that a different denomination at different books in the Bible so the different religious groups which which were a part of the Canon they had a lot of debate and agreement which needs to be considered and which should not so each one considered certain books and included in their Bible like you know in in varying order so the Jewish tonic which is also called as the Hebrew Bible they have 24 books as the Old Testament yeah 24 books and the Christian Bible ranges from 73 books of the Catholic Church Canon and 66 books of the Canon of some denomination or it's been generally have Old Testament Bible as 66 books whereas the other denominations have books of 80 and 81 included as their Old Testament book some of the orthodox churches have 80 or 81 books included as the Old Testament scriptures the second part is the New Testament which contains the 27 books that is the four canonical gospel followed up with the book of Acts of the Apostle and then 21 epistles or the letters and the book of Revelation book of Revelation so this forms the how the scriptures came together so till now do you all have any question or you would like to share add on I think I've received a message let me check no problem is like that's okay okay it happens just that we have to keep our mic muted so that you know we all can open okay if it if it all you want to share something is like you can always use the chat so that you know we can read and interact with you through that way thank you we appreciate for you to be part of this class thank you okay yes as I said said you know like the Canon decides the Canon decides why certain books need to be included maybe some scriptures in that particular book are not agreeable or that does not go well with the other scriptures in the Bible so they would have decided to not include in the Bible but whereas yeah that's how the council the Canon council decides which to be included and which not so that's how they have formed the 66 books as a general book in the Old Testament and some of the other denominations I've considered the other books anyone else anyone else would like to share okay so as we have done with our introduction of our you know Old Testament survey and okay so we can prepare for the next class and we will be studying on the Pentateuch that is the book from the Genesis onwards in the next class that is next week so for now if you have any questions anything that you would like to share you can go ahead the meanwhile I'll just stop the recording