Journey: Lesson 7- the Gift of The Land
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This is the 7th lesson in the Journey Bible Study Program series. In this lesson Chapter 1 describes the life in the desert as the People traveled from Egypt to the promised Land. Chapter 2 tells us of the life of the Canaanites and the gradual settling into the Land which occurred by infiltration,settlements and battles. Chapter 3 then describes the struggle for survival once the People of God were settled in the Land. Chapter 4 gives us a commentary on Paragragh eleven of "Dei Verbum".
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 7- The Gift of the Land
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: . This is the land which I swore to Abraham I would give his descenants.
Deut. 34:4.
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.
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Life in the Desert
Chapter 2 Settling in the Land
Chapter 3 The Struggle for Survival
Chapter 4 On Chapter Three, Paragraph Eleven of Dei Verbum
Answer key to practice questions
Self-test
Answer key to self-test
Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Seven
About the Author
Introductory Note to Lessons Seven to Ten
Lessons One to Six dealt with the five books which are called The Law (Gen, Exod, Lev, Num, Deut). This is the first of the three traditional divisions of the books of the Old Testa¬ment. The second division of books is called The Prophets and includes the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets. The third division of OT books is called The Writings and con¬tains all the other books of the OT. Since the Book of Psalms is the principal book in this third category, the title Psalms is sometimes used instead of The Writings (See Luke 24:44).
In Lessons Seven to Fifteen we will consider The Prophets. The books in this category are subdivided into two sections: Early Prophets referring to Josh, Judg, 1 and 2 Sam, 1 and 2 Kgs; Later Prophets referring to all the books of the prophets. Lessons Seven to Ten consider mostly the Early Prophets. This collection of books, the Early Prophets, is extraordinary in many ways. In all the known literature of antiquity no similar attempt at a continuous history of a people can be found. These books cover