Week 7: Sin/Guilt/Punishment
Presenters
Gavin Niven, Victoria Linford, Miranda Warner
Biblical Texts
- Psalm 51:1-5 (better yet, the whole psalm)
- Genesis 3:1-12
- Genesis 4:13-16
- 1 Samuel 15:13-21
- 2 Samuel 12:13-14
Additional Resources
The article sin in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
The articles
sin,
confession of sin, and
repentance in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
And how did I miss...
The most closely related section of Berkhof’s Christian Faith is ch. 27 (“Man: Guilt and Fate”, pp. 192-215) which can be consulted with profit. Rolf Knierim’s older review article* of a Czech work on OT “Hamartiology” (= “doctrine of sin”) is a technical, but still useful consideration of the vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible (Hebrew is transliterated, which makes it more accessible to those without a knowledge of biblical Hebrew language).
* R. Knierim, “The Problem of an Old Testament Hamartiology”, Vetus Testamentum 16/3 (1966), 366-385.