Development of sacred scripture

A. Rational human beings use abstracted experience to come to terms with that experience

B. How human beings reason toward a thinkable universe

C. The Western tradition of spiritual rationalization

II. Theological and mythical structures

A. Targumim and controversy over community

B. Ancient and rabbinical approaches

C. Theme of suffering and resolution of faith

A. The nuance of the Passion and Resurrection

B. Christological transformations of traditional Jewish doctrine

C. The Problem of evil and morality

D. The role of Paul as commentator and organizer

2. Superiority of Christian fulfillment to Jewish tradition

1. Literalists, fundamentalists, premillennialists

2. Progressives, demythologizers, metaphoricists

3. Dante's poetic elaboration of the experience of grace

V. Conclusion: What interpretative methods imply about the role of scripture

 The purpose of this research is to examine suffering as a foundation of scriptural genesis. The plan of the research will be to set forth source material and commentary on the Old Testament and New Testament that illustrates the hypothesis that the development of sacred scripture in the Western tradition was derived out of human

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ure as the defining quality of the culture was the institutionalization of the rabbinical or priestly class. Inevitably, some form of legal codification of text and interpretation undertaken by the rabbis would follow. That shows the organizational power of language. This inevitability can be compared with first-century Christian exegesis, which appears in the main to have been concerned to show how Jesus fulfilled, amplified, or departed from Jewish tradition and so to justify the new religion. Indeed, "Apostles, especially Saint Paul, studied the Old Testament chiefly for evidence in support of the Christian gospel. In their view, the Gospel contains the true 'meaning' of Scripture and reflects the divine plan from the creation of the world." Compare this with the fact that "most Jewish scholars [of the period] assumed that every situation in human life was covered by the sacred revelation in the Old Testament and that everything contained in the Scriptures had meaning." The legally normative rabbinical school, would be succeeded by the Christian-normative school, which held, chiefly through Paul's letters, that although the legalistic aspects of rabbinical interpretation had validity, the law "had been fulfilled in the
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