How and why different ancient communities preserved, transmitted, and treated particular texts and ideas as holy and authoritative have been central questions and themes of this course. Select two or three of the assigned readings for this course, at least one from the Hebrew Bible and one from the New Testament, that respond to the same underlying question. Their answers to that question may be similar or completely different. In your essay, pinpoint and state the underlying question(s)
to which these texts respond. Discuss the historical contexts in which the question arose, the historical contexts of the biblical responses, and how these texts resonate as humanistic questions.Then discuss how the selected biblical texts respond to the underlying questions and appropriately compare and contrast the answers
