Remember When...

Your parents or grandparents used to tell you stories?

Story Telling was the first way that stories of the Bible were passed down through generations.

That's how the stories of the Bible first began: A mother told a son. A teacher told a student. A son told a friend. A father told a daughter...

Stories were spoken and handed down through generations.

• Do you remember stories or songs that have been handed down through generations?
• Why is it easy to remember stories and songs?
• What are some stories of the Bible that you can remember and tell by heart?
  • David and Goliath
  • Noah's Ark
  • The Parable of the fish and loaves
  • Others?

Explore some of these songs. Do any of them sound familiar?

• Jesus loves me
  
• Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
  
• Do any of Charles Wesley's hymns ring a bell?

Is there a reason you can remember these? Do you remember camp songs?

Songs are also easy to remember, so they were easy to pass down from generation to generation. From these songs came the book of Psalms, which was like a "hymnal" for Jewish worship. But these songs could also tell a story.

Psalm 3 - A Psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom

Psalm 30 - A song of dedication of the temple of David

Psalm 90 - A prayer of Moses

Psalm 120 (clear to 134) - Songs of ascents, which the people sang as they climbed the hill to enter Jerusalem for holy festivals.

Eventually, the stories were written down.
Let's move on and see.

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More Indepth

You can go more indepth and explore the adult "Bible" study pages:

Beginnings: Sacred Stories Become Scriptures

Timeline of Biblical and World Events

The Origins of The Hebrew Bible and Its Components (Outside Link)

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