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Explain why the teacher compares the Old Testament to a film.
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Because the beginning of one time book picks up where the previous time book left off
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As a BIG BOOK the script of the story moves us, the readers, along the timeline while the individual books give us flashes of the actual people living that script.
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The Old Testament is like a film because it starts with a story and adds details throughout so we can fully understand it.
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While the Old Testament is a complete story in itself, it was not presented in such a way. It is like a mystery movie we’re we are shown certain things as the story moves forward with brief pauses to fill in gaps or provide more clues or details about specific events. And instead of splicing all thieve books together into one long detailed completely organized book, we are given the opportunity to know what to read to get the big picture and what to read to add the details.
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In Dr. Buzzell’s review of the discussion of The Old Testament Story he helps to clarify the writing and sequence of texts through two categories; “color” and “time.” The category of “time” denotes the 11 “time” books. “The ‘time’ books are spliced together like a movie reel.” These texts tell us the main ideas and events of the story. The next book picks up the story where the previous book stopped. These “time” writings are the texts that keep the story moving and keep us turning the pages to see what happens next ! The editing of these “time” books required some detail and elaboration. or “color” added to the writing. Often this editing process would require an entire new text as to not slow down the story with more detail than necessary.
