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- Help to provide the context of ancient writings and artifacts
- Who created them?
- How were they used?
- What did they mean?
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- Earliest forms of writing were in pictograms: use of pictures to
communicate; before the development of written language
- Phoenicians: designated number of symbols; first alphabet
- Scribes: people who knew all the pictures, symbols, etc that were used
in communication
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- Use of typology; types of writing that have common traits; gives us a
clue as to context of the Hebrew Scriptures
- We read the Hebrew Scriptures in light of the Christian Scriptures
- St. Augustine: ‘the New Testament lies hidden in the Old Testament
- Old Testament helps us to understand the new and vice versa
- We need to read the Bible with a critical eye to find its deeper
meanings
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Notes
