Old Testament Study Coming Up – BOAP Resources November 17, 2009
4 Comments With the OT the topic of study in 2010 in LDS Sunday
Schools, I thought I’d mention that there are some resources at
boap.org that may be useful to all you teachers and students. 1.
There is Jerome’s text of the OT for you Latin readers! 2. Since
the Pearl of Great Price gets lumped into the OT for the most
part, there is a bit of historical info about how it came about
(the PGP). And for the glutton, there is the Joseph Smith
commentary of the Book of Abraham. (But the Book of Abraham gets
only a slight brush-by in the church manual.) 3. Herodotus. His
history of the ancient world is interesting, and if nothing else
tells us how people thought of their predecessors. Not to be
taken at face-value, but offers a starting point. 4. An English
version of the Holy Qur’an. A relatively modern text, it still
gives us a useful perspective on how the OT is viewed in much of
the modern world. (The earliest Hebrew OT texts we have, aside
from th