September 23 24 Books for Bible Bookshelf Week 1 Book & Test- Bookshelf NAB translation Summary of the book Citation ament section He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the Genesis: The beginning - This book tells the story of Genesis stars, if you can. Just so, he Creation, the Flood and the beginnings of the 'chosen Gen 15: 5- added, will your descendants be. people.' An unkown editor or editors complied the Old Pentateuch 6 Abram put his faith in the LORD, stories that had been passed down orally for over 1000 who attributed it to him as an years. act of righteousness. When Haman observed that Mordecai would not kneel and bow Esther is probably a fictional story - but the point of the down to him, he was filled with anger. But he thought it was story is that God saves his people through the actions of Esther Est beneath him to attack only people. Esther saves the entire Jewish race from Old Historical 3:5-6 Mordecai. Since they had told extinction with the help of her cousin Mordecai. There Haman of Mordecai’s nationality, he are 2 early written versions - one in Greek and one in sought to destroy all the Jews, Mordecai’s people, throughout the Hebrew, that differ slightly. realm of King Ahasuerus. If you wish, my son, you can be The author of this book was a sage who lived in wise; if you apply yourself, you Jerusalem less than 200 years before the time of Jesus. Sirach Sir can be shrewd. If you are willing He wrote to help the Jewish people maintain their Old Wisdom Lit 6:32-33 to listen, you can learn; if you pay attention, you can be religious faith through study of the sacred books. It instructed. consists of many maxim for how to live well. I will not give vent to my blazing Hosea was a prophet in the Northern Kingdom about anger, I will not destroy Ephraim 800 years before Christ. His marriage (to a whore) was Hosea again; For I am God and not a a symbol of the relationship between the chosen Old Prophets Hos 11:9 man, the Holy One present among you; I will not come in people and God. God is faithful no matter what - even wrath. when people are not faithful to the covenant. For the vision is a witness for the Habakkuk was a prophet in the Southern Kingdom appointed time, a testimony to about 600 years before Christ. He complained to God Habakkuk the end; it will not disappoint. If about the lack of justice in the world. His complaints are Old Prophets Hab 2:2-3 it delays, wait for it, it will surely answered by God's promise that God's rule is just and come, it will not be late. reliable. All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be This letter is attributed to Saint Paul, written fromprison Ephesians removed from you, along with about 60AD, but it may have been written by a group of Eph 4:31- all malice. [And] be kind to one Paul's followers about 80 or 100AD. It is the great New Pauline Letters 32 another, compassionate, leeter about the church, which in unity, is to make forgiving one another as God has God's saving love known to all. forgiven you in Christ.. Catechist Cheat Sheet September 23 24 Books for Bible Bookshelf Week 1 We hear that some are conducting themselves among This short letter may have been written by Saint Paul or 2 Thes- you in a disorderly way, by not by his followers. It is very different from his first letter salonians keeping busy but minding the to the Thessalonians, not as warm. The people are New Pauline Letters 2 Thess business of others. Such people reminded to stay true to what they have learned. It 3:11-12 we instruct and urge in the Lord seems they were suffering from persecution by non- Jesus Christ to work quietly and Christians, and needed a reminder on how to behave. to eat their own food. The First Letter of John was probably written by his Whoever is without love does followers around 100AD. The letter was probably not know God, for God is written to help combat false ideas about Jesus, and to 1 John love.9In this way the love of God catholic deepen the spiritual and social awareness of the New 1Jn 4:8-9 was revealed to us: God sent his Letters only Son into the world so that Chrsitian community. The fullness of Christian life is we might have life through him. fellowship with God, based on true belief and living with love towards one another. Catechist Cheat Sheet.