/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21598269]

is there any chart for the books of the bible

[Anonymous No.21598274]

>>21598269
Genesis
Matthew
Luke
2 Corinthians
Hebrews
(with commentaries)

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>>21598269
i never thought /lit/ could stoop so low, 2023 is going to be an incredible year

[Anonymous No.21598309]

>>21598269
My personnal recommendation is to read the narrative books first so you have a framework to better understand the context of the prophets, writings and letters when you get to them. Somehting like this:

Genesis
Exodus (skip the tabernacle chapters)
Numbers (start at chapter 10)
Deteronomy 34
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
Daniel 1-6
Ezra
Nehemiah
1 Maccabees (not in Protestant Bibles)
Luke
Acts

I picked just Luke and Acts because they're a duology that seamlessly go together, so they're great for a first go-around. But of course you can read the other gospels.

[Anonymous No.21598371]

>>21598269
Matthew, Mark, Luke, Acts, John, Epistles, Revelation, OT in order.
if you're so inclined, the wisdom books (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes) first in the OT. i atleast recommend getting up to Chronicles beforehand. careful, they're very complicated, especially Job. search about any doubts you have, and for hard passages.

lastly, study everything deeply. you'll often misunderstand or misinterpret some passages. it's the source of all criticism of Christianity; either a twisted passage misinterpreted, or a simple doubt held onto instead of answered.

[Anonymous No.21598377]

>>21598269
Just read it straight though. You don't need any handholding.

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>>21598377
will get filtered at about the middle of the pentateuch (first five books).
no motivation to go on if he doesn't understand what he's reading.

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I miss /christian/

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Best of luck, OP. These are all of the infographics I have on the Bible, specifically.

[Anonymous No.21598504]

>>21598383
>no motivation to go on if he doesn't understand what he's reading.
There are words on the page that explain exactly what's happening. You don't need the NT as a key for the OT, useful as it can be.

[Anonymous No.21598608]

>>21598504
>The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 34 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land, 35 the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.’ 36 The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house. 37 He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall, 38 the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days. 39 On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls, 40 he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town. 41 He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town. 42 Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.
How will someone reading for the first time get anything out of pages and pages of this stuff in Leviticus?

[Anonymous No.21598652]

>>21598608
Ideally, the reader will have a fascination with history and the divinely guided cultural evolution of a people who are essentially learning hygiene and germ-theory (more or less) for the first time. Ideally. Similar to Jacob breeding livestock of a certain fur pattern by having them stare at reeds -- obviously, that's not how it works, but the fact that he thought it worked that way achieved the intended results.

When I was reading through the Bible with an open mind for the first time, I couldn't get enough of that confusing stuff. Just trying to make sense of it and putting myself into the position of an ancient human receiving the Tanakh as an oral tradition was extremely gratifying.

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>>21598274
Terrible list.

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>>21598371
this is a good order