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Virginia Smith's Accomplishments

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When Virginia Smith was twelve she received the bible for Christmas, and she set a goal. The goal was to read one chapter everyday until she finished it. She fulfilled that goal within two years and eleven months. What she found out after she read it was that it would have been a lot easier not to go in thinking that it is just one book. In a way she was entering a library to read seventy-two books of poetry, song, letters, allegories, historical sagas and more. Also, Smith believes that it would be helpful to know that the Old Testament is divided up into four groups. The groups are the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, the Wisdom Books or the Writings, and the Prophetic Books. In the group called the Pentateuch there are five books. The …show more content…

A small amount of these books are Wisdom Literature including Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Syrach, and the Book of Wisdom. Every one of these books confronts the topic differently. Just like how Job ponders the mystery of why the good suffer. Also, the Proverbs obey short axioms as norms for moral Conduct. In the Ecclesiastes Qoheleth mourns the vanity of everything that isn't God therefore only God lasts and everything else is short-lived. Sirach gains the wisdom of past centuries and summarized it. The Book of Wisdom is most passionate towards its hopes for immortality. The first of the Songs of Songs and the Psalms was an epic love poem, celebrating ideal love between woman and man, which is also considered to be describing the love between God and the Israelites. The group of Prophetic Books are divided into the minor prophets and major prophets. The major prophets are Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel are listed first, but not because their messages are more important but that they are longer. The twelve minor prophets are from Hosea through Malachi are writings shorter in length written in shorter in length and follow one by one. The main role for the prophets is to “speak for God” on the issues of the

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