It is very exciting for me to be part of the ootle16 group
for this promising study of the “Introduction To The Old Testament” class. There
are many things that excite me about in this course. I like the way our teacher, Dr. Lester, gets us involved and to
interact through blogs and twitters though they are so new to me. The content
of the course seems interesting. I hope I will be dealing in depth with
different terms or terminology in the Hebrew Bible. I will learn to read and
understand it better with different lens in terms of historical, cultural,
literary, social, political, economic, religious, and so on.
Dr. Bandstra’s introduction to reading the Hebrew Bible and
Dr. Lester’s video lectures A and B give me a lot of inputs on how to view and
read this Bible, which some call the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, the TaNaK
and the Jewish Bible. It is very interesting to have different terms to call it
from a diversity of backgrounds.
One of my concerns is that English is my second language so
I may not communicate my understanding, sharing and contributions to you
completely as well as my mother tongue (Vietnamese). So please extend your
grace to me when you read something I write that may sound “weird” or “out of
tone” to you, native speakers. I would highly
appreciate it. I will try my best in this particular area.
I hope we will all reach our academic goal for this class
together, and for me I will never be the same again in viewing our Old
Testament.
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