Intro to Tanakh

Shalom. Seventh graders today, we're going to talk about some

of the ways that the Tanaka is divided and then

divided even further.

If that doesn't make sense, I think by the end

of this video it will.

So we are going to quickly click through everything.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

Prezi for catching up.

All right, so we're gonna talk about different subdivisions of

the town off when I say subdivisions.

I mean, it's divided, and then it's divided again and

again. So, as you have learned from the previous Prezi

is and crosses, the Tanaka is divided into three main

sections the Torah, navy, E M, and key to VM.

Those air, obviously the biggest.

That's where we get the abbreviation from.

That should be review.

Now, each section is divided into books.

And when I talk about a book, I'm not literally

talking about a book that you pull off the shelf.

But this is a technical term that refers to books

within each section.

So, for example, the books of the Torah section of

the are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers and Deuteronomy.

You may remember that from our first quiz.

So those are the books.

Then each book is divided into chapters, so we're breaking

down the books even further.

So, for example, the Book of Jonah, which we're going

to study a little bit later today, is divided into

four chapters, and chapters in the sense of the are

a little bit different than a typical chapter book here.

Each chapter is usually a few pages long.

Some are even only one page long, not quite as

long as we might think of, as in a chapter

book that's fiction or nonfiction.

But those are the different chapters.

Then these chapters are divided again into verses.

So, for example, if I told you to look at

the chapter one verse one of Jonah, you would find

these words.

I'm obviously reading the English translation here.

The word of adenine came to Jonah, Son of Amity.

That's the text for Chapter one Verse one of Jonah,

and each verse is approximately one sentence long.

Some are a little longer.

Some are a little shorter, but that's when you think

of a verse you can think of about a sentence.

So a question that you will almost certainly be asked

on the test is Thio put these different subdivisions in

order from largest to smallest.

So the largest would be a section which is Tora

Navy market to bean.

Those are the three sections of the followed by books

in the Tora.

We talked about those being Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, etcetera Um,

some of the books and Navy EMR Joshua Judges 1st

and 2nd Samuel 1st and 2nd Kings.

Some of the books of would be Daniel, Esther, Ecclesiastes,

et cetera.

Um, you don't need to write all that down.

I'm just naming those that you're familiar with some books.

Then we divide each book into chapters.

Those were about a page two pages long, and then

each chapter is further divided in diverse is which we

said we're about a sentence long so section book, chapter

verse You wanted the largest to smallest and then also

smallest to largest.

Now we're going to talk about citations.

I gave you three different definitions of a citation here,

um, you can use which everyone makes the most sense

to you.

Citation is a reference to a source.

That's the broad definition of what a citation is in

this class that sources Usually that's enough eso when we

talk about citations in this class, we're usually talking about

the so I'll make reference to we call them.

Biblical citations are citations from to the another definition for

citation would be the answer to the question.

Where in the can this information be found?

We don't use page numbers because each edition of the

is a little bit different.

We use these, um, chapter and verse numbers instead.

That will make a little bit more sense when we

get to the next slide.

A citation is also how to look up information in

any Jewish edition of the So this is again excuse

me, what we would use to locate the information that

we are looking for.

Um, I wanted to point this out that it's in

any Jewish edition because even though, um, Christians also read

the they call it the Old Testament.

The chapters and the verses don't always line up, but

in most Jewish in most Jewish editions of this, enough,

most of the time the verses will line up, um,

which is important because, um, that's how you can look

up the same information in any edition.

Any kind of book of the Tuna Okay, I do

want you to copy down this chart so you can

just copy it.

You know what you can do if you're typing?

Um, either you can re type it and add in

the little arrows like I did, or you could take

a screenshot and put that in your notes.

Or if you're writing by hand, you can just draw

this diagram again.

So these are the different components of a citation.

There are three main components the name of the book,

the chapter number and then the verse number.

And I guess the 3.5 or fourth component would be

this little colon here.

That's the two dots on top of each other.

There's a colon in between the chapter number and the

verse number.

So, as an example, here's the citation.

So the name of the book Deuteronomy, the Chapter six

and the verse 18 so I could take any edition

of the any version of the book, regardless of whether

it's Hebrew Huber.

Only your English only.

Or another language.

Andi, I would find that same information when I looked

at Deuteronomy 6 18.

So those are the components of a citation next, we're

going to talk about what might be cited.

So sometimes when we're using a citation, we might you

we might cite a particular verse, so that's a very

specific sentence.

Reverse. Really?

Um, in the so, for example, you might see Isaiah

to colon four.

That would tell you to goto Isaiah Chapter two, verse

four. And to read that sentence.

Other times we might cite a chapter.

Ah, whole chapter, Um, which again?

It's a couple pages.

Or maybe a page so you might see Esther three.

You can see that after the three.

There's no colon.

It's not telling you to look at specific versus it's

telling you to look at the whole chapter.

Esther. Three Other times we might cite a range of

verses, so this would be not necessarily an entire chapter,

but more than just a single verse.

And you can see here the citation for a range

of versus second Kings Chapter two versus one through 12.

So, unlike Esther three, where I'm telling you to just

look at the whole chapter of Esther in this range

of versus I'm telling you to just look at part

of that chapter.

I'm telling you.

Which part of the chapter versus 123456789 10 11 12

versus one through 12.

Finally, we're going to talk about using a citation.

Um, I'm going to skip that example for now.

Um, this week, we are going to talk about how

to use a website called Safari A.

We're going to be using citations to find the information

we want from a that's published online.

Um, if you are looking up versus from the online,

it's very important that you make sure you're using a

reliable Jewish, that you're not using a Christian version of

the where the translations will be a little different or

a version of the that someone just put together in

their house and didn't get anyone's help on.

You want one that a lot of people have studied?

A lot of people have worked on to make sure

that the text is correct and the translations are true.

So here are three examples of online team that are

reliable. There are others.

If you want to talk to me about them, I'm

happy to let you know, um, how reliable I think

they are.

The first, and the one that will be using later

today for our assignment is safari a dot or GE.

Another good one is dot organ.

Other. It's a good one.

The translation is a little bit old.

It's from 1917 but it's reliable and accurate, which is

good. Another reliable one.

It could be found habad dot or GE.

This isn't the exact link, but I can get you

the link if you would like or you go to

their main website, um and then find there's enough So

we'll be talking about safari a next, and that will

be in a separate video, Chalone.

Intro to Tanakh

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