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    Journey: Lesson 16 -New Directions
    Journey: Lesson 16 -New Directions
    Journey: Lesson 16 -New Directions
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    Journey: Lesson 16 -New Directions

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 16 of the Journey Bible Study program series. The purpose of this lesson is to describe the developments in organizations and in leadership and changes in attitudes towards the gentiles which took place in the People of God after the Exile. Chapter 1 presents the Edict of Cyrus and the work of those who took advantage of it. Chapter 2 describes the message of the Book of Malachi.Chapter 3 describes the work of Ezra and Nehemiah. Chapter presents the book of Ruth.Chapter 5 presents Third Isaiah and the book of Zechariah. Chapter 6 presents the book of Jonah.Chapter 7 presents the developments in leadership after the Exile.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmmaus Publications
    Release dateJan 15, 2014
    ISBN9781927766194
    Journey: Lesson 16 -New Directions
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    Marcel Gervais

    About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.

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      Journey - Marcel Gervais

      Journey- Lesson 16 New Directions

      by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

      Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

      Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

      London, March 31, 1980

      This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa,ON, K1S 5P5, Canada on Smashwords

      Cover: ... Come let us rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.... (Nehemiah 2:17-18).

      COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs ln the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction ln whole or ln part is Prohibited.

      ~~~~~~~~

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Those Moved by the Spirit of God

      Chapter 2 My Messenger

      Chapter 3 The Scribes

      Chapter 4 The Good Law by a Good Foreigner

      Chapter 5 Let Them come to Us

      Chapter 6 Let Us go to Them

      Chapter 7 Directions taken

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Sixteen

      About The Author

      Introductory Notes to Lessons 16 to 20

      In the JOURNEY program so far we have considered the first two categories' s of books of the Old Testament: the Law (Lessons 1-6) and the Prophets (Early Prophets: Lessons 7- 1 0; Later Prophets: Lessons 11-15). Now we are about to begin the books which were grouped together to form the Writings. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Writings are a loose collection of all those books which do not clearly fall under the Law or the Prophets. While many of the books which are contained in the category of the Writings have their roots earlier in the history of the People, all of them have in common the fact that they became known and accepted later, during or after the Exile.

      Lesson 16 marks the transition between the prophets and the later books (the Writings). This lesson will include some readings from the last part of the Book of Isaiah, as well as a few selections from the prophets Zechariah and Malachi. It will also include the Book of Jonah. This lesson marks the end of prophecy as we have come to know it in the last five lessons. You will begin to see priests, scribes and scholars taking the place of the prophets. A new emphasis is beginning to be placed on the written word, the word that is fixed arid needs to be interpreted. In Lessen 19 you will he introduced to a new kind of literature called Apocalypticwritten form of prophecy (Lesson 19).

      The Writings contain some of the different and provocative literature of the Bible. The books of the wise men, the Intellectuals among the People of God tackle some of life's most nasty and nagging problems. Ecclesiastes (also called (Quoheleth)There are also more calm and less tortured writings: Proverbs and the Song of Songs deal with the day to day joys and sorrows of getting by in life (Lessons 17 and 18).

      Intellectuals of a later age combine the roles of wisdom writers with the job of prophecy (Ecclesiasticus) called Sirach, and the Book of Wisdom. Lessons 18 and 19) These are a new type of literature. They were not even written in Palestine.

      The period of history from the year 400 BC to 175 BC is one which gives us next to no information about the life of the People of God, either in Palestine or outside of it, We know the major events in world history during this

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