"What Is the Bible?" Lecture with Nate Ramsayer

How well do you really know the Bible? How many books can you name from it? What separates the Old Testament from the New Testament? What language was the Bible written in? What are the major differences between the Hebrew Bible from the Christian Bible?

While most people recognize the fact that the Bible was written a long time ago and, in a language, other than English, many struggle to be able to understand what time period it dates from, as well as just how difficult it is to create a translation into modern English that we can all understand. Join biblical scholar and archaeologist Nate Ramsayer for a seven-part course on How the Bible Became a Book, as he helps audiences to track how these collections of ancient scriptures came together to create a single book.

This first presentation provides a basic overview of the structure of…