Scripture

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To understand how the Holy Bible is the sacred Book of Faith of the Church, and is the written testimony of the Truth taught by the living Word, our Lord Jesus Christ. To teach the students that for the Orthodox Church, the Scriptures is part of our Holy Tradition. The Church has precedence to the Scripture. The process through which the Old and New Testaments was canonized.

Teacher Training and Resources

Reference Materials

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The following materials are offered as sources for information and ideas but please remember to properly give credit if material is used in your writing! If you forget to use references, or your references are incomplete, your work can seem like an empty postulation or create suspicions of plagiarism.

Articles

  1. Is there an Orthodox Bible?, Fr. Reji Mathew
  2. Ten Basic Principles of an Orthodox Exegetical Method, St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary
  3. The Orthodox Psalter, Father Lazarus Moore
  4. Reading Scripture, Fr. John Behr (Public Orthodoxy)
  5. Theology, Scripture, & Tradition, MOSC website
  6. "Scripture and Tradition", R. Thomas Zell (Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America)
  7. Is the Septuagint the Orthodox Old Testament?, Fr. Stephen De Young (The Whole Counsel of God, Ancient Faith Ministries)
  8. Collection of Scripture articles and Quotes, St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church
  9. A to Z of Reading the Bible, Fr. Sujit Thoma

Videos

  1. How to Read the Bible, Steven Christoforou, Be the Bee (Y2AM, Greek Orthodox Church)
  2. Where Did the Bible Come From?, Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick (Theoria)
  3. Early Roots Class 3-Where Did the Bible Come From, St. Mary Magdelene Bible Study with Fr. Stephen De Young
  4. Live the Word, Steven Christoforou, Live the Word (Y2AM, Greek Orthodox Church)
  5. When, Why, and How should We Read the Scriptures?, Fr. John Behr (OCA)
  6. How to read scriptures effectively, Bishop Suriel (Coptic Orthodox Diocese of LA)
  7. Defense of our Faith by a Harvard Orthodox Student, YouTube

Podcasts

  1. How to Read the Bible, Fr. Thomas Hopko, Speaking the Truth in Love podcast (Ancient Faith Radio)
  2. Reading the Old Testament, Fr. Thomas Hopko, Speaking the Truth in Love podcast (Ancient Faith Radio)
  3. The Importance of Reading the Bible in Christian Life, Fr. John Whiteford, Eleventh Annual Lenten Retreat at Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco (Ancient Faith Radio)

Book Excerpts

  1. From Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, The Jesus We Missed:The Surprising Truth About the Humanity of Christ (pg. 3) [Reardon, Patrick Henry. The Jesus We Missed: The Surprising Truth about the Humanity of Christ. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012.]
Just where did Matthew and Luke discover the historical material that fills the first two chapters of each of these gospels? Since this material had not been part of the early preaching of the apostles, how did the two Evangelists know about it?
The only reasonable answer, it seems to me, is that the "source" was Jesus' own mother, of whom we are told, "Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart" (Luke 2:19, 51). Later in the first century, when Matthew and Luke wrote, she alone was still alive to remember those details, which could have been known to no one else.

Other Resources

  1. Orthodox Resource Guide, Fr. Abey George (pages 17-26)
  2. How to read the Bible, Fr. Matta El-Meskeen (The Monastery of St Macarius)

Scripture

In order to help our children grow in the Orthodox Faith in North America, a decision was made to standardize all materials to the Orthodox Study Bible (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/016/2010, October 28, 2010). Please continue to pray and support the development of a fully approved translation based on the Peshitta, and our textbooks will educate on the various translations and historic development of Scripture.

  • [1 Corinthians 15:3–5]

    For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve."

  • [John 21:24-25]

    This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.

  • [2 Timothy 3:16-17]

    All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Liturgical Resources

The Ministry of Liturgical Resource Development (LRD) was created in July of 2015 (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/10/2015, July 24,2015) to promote the translation, versification, and publication of vital English liturgical resources. Today most of our Sacramental offices are available and the "Service Book of the Holy Qurbono" and "Shehimo: Book of Common Prayer" are available in print. Wherever possible references will be made using LRD resources given the easy access to these materials to the faithful in North America.

Holy Qurbono


Other Hymns


Other Prayers

  • Silent Prayer of the Priest before reading the Holy Gospel
Grant us, O Lord, the knowledge of your Divine Words and fill us with the understanding of Your Holy Gospel, the richness of Your Divine Gifts, and the grace of Your Holy Spirit.
Grant us the wisdom to obey Your commandments with joy and do Your will.
Make us worthy of Your blessings and mercies, now and always, and forever and ever.
Amin.

Promion and Sedro


Quotes

Patristic Quotes

  • [St. John Chrysostom] "The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.”
  • [St. John Chrysostom] "The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”
  • [St. Cyril of Jerusalem] "In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy Scripture. Do not be led astray by winning words and clever arguments. Even to me, who tell you these things, do not give ready belief, unless you receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of the things which I announce. The salvation in which we believe is not proved from clever reasoning, but from the Holy Scriptures."
  • [St. Ephrem] "If there only existed a single sense for the words of Scripture, then the first commentator who came along would discover it, and other hearers would experience neither the labor of searching, nor the joy of finding. Rather, each word of our Lord has its own form, and each form has its own members, and each member has its own character. Each individual understands according to his capacity and interprets as it is granted him."

Other Quotes

  • [HG Dr. Geevarghese Mar Osthathios] "We must always explain the Scriptural truth in the context of the sacred traditions of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and not establish any dogma on the basis of the traditions alone.”

Syriac and Greek Words

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