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Identify the three stages of gospel formation

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  1. Jesus (oral)
  2. Apostles (oral)
  3. Evangelists (written)
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Identify St. Jerome

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Church father and scholar who translated the Bible creating the Latin Vulgate

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Identify some translations of the bible

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-KJV
-RSV
-Douay-Rheims
-NKJV
-NAB
-The Jerusalem Bible

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Identify some methods and approaches to interpreting sacred scripture

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  • Historical Critical Method
  • Canonical Critical
  • Feminist
  • Form Criticism
  • Liberationist
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Define Canon

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“rule” or “standard”
The books received by the church as inspired by God and therefore authoritative as guide in faith and morals
Finalized at the Council of Trent (1546)

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Identify some ecclesial/magisterial documents on the Bible

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  1. Providentissimus Deus
  2. Divino Afflante Spiritu
  3. The interpretation of the Bible in the Church
  4. Dei Verbum
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Explain the dating of PD, DAS, & IBC

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IBC was written fifty years after Divino Afflante Spiritu which was written fifty years after PD

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ID two verses that provide Biblical foundation for TH Insp

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  1. II Tim 3:16
  2. II Peter 1:19-21
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Define Theopneustos

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Inspired {literally: breathed upon} by God

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ID Five Theories of Inpiration

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  1. Strict Verbal
  2. Limited Verbal
  3. Insp of content
  4. Insp of human authors
  5. Insp of early Xn communities
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Explain inspiration previously philosophical

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God was the First Cause and the human authors were the instrumental cause

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ID apparent contradictions in the Bible

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  • Location of the great sermon (mtn or plain)
  • baptism location
  • number of angels at the tomb
  • cleansing of the temple timeline
  • length of the flood
  • Abraham’s burial site
  • (errors in natural science)
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ID Codex

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Manuscripts on individual leaves bound together along one edge; the predecessor of the modern book; replaced the scroll gradually after the first century AD

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ID the four most important codices today with anything remarkable about them

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  1. Vaticanus - no one knows how it got there
  2. Sinaiticus - It was being used to build fires at St Catherine’s monastery until a visiting scholar recognized it
  3. Alexandrinus - located in Alexandria because of the Jewish diaspora
  4. Bezae - bilingual Greek and Hebrew
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ID prominent individuals who contributed to the canon

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  1. Jerome
  2. Athanasius
  3. Augustine
  4. Marcion
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ID the councils that led to the fixing of the canon

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  1. Carthage
  2. Florence
  3. Trent
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Explain how the Hebrew, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant canons differ

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  1. The Catholic canon is based on the LXX and includes the Deuterocanonical books including the “additional” sections of Daniel and Esther.
  2. The Orthodox canon includes those books plus other “apocryphal” books.
  3. The Protestant canon is based on the Masoretic text and therefore contains no deuterocanonical or apocryphal books.
  4. The Hebrew canon, since Jamnia, uses the Masoretic text and therefore also contains no deuterocanonical or apocryphal books
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ID the synonym for “Testament”

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Covenant

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ID Jerome’s categories of books

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  1. Inspired and canonical
  2. Edifying but not inspired/canonical
  3. Apocryphal
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Jerome’s assignation of Didache and Shepherd of Hermas

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Edifying but not inspired/canonical

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OT for Jewish Christians

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LXX

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Explain the debate re: Revelation in the East and West

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The West accepted Revelation as inspired because of it’s apostolic authorship by John. The east questioned its authorship and had concerns about misinterpretation of its symbolism which led them to reject its liturgical use.

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ID the most common criteria employed in the canonical process

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  1. Apostolic Origin (real or putative)
  2. Orthodoxy
  3. Antiquity
  4. Use in liturgical worship
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ID the two versions of the Jewish canon and what distinguishes them

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  1. The Palestinian Canon is written in Hebrew
  2. The Alexandrian Canon is written in Greek
25
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Explain how Luther and other reformers dealt with Deut Lit

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They used the Masoretic text and therefore rejected deuterocanonical literature. In general, they seemed to think that books that contained info contrary to their interpretation of the faith must not be inspired

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Brown’s Four Contradictory Positions on Inspiration

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  1. Pious TH belief with no validity
  2. Inappropriate for scholarly consideration and make insp irrelevant
  3. Literalists make insp so dominant that human limitation is irrelevant
  4. Intermediate position: Divine authorship that did not remove human limitation
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Positions on Inerrancy noted by Brown

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  1. Dispense with it altogether
  2. TH in texts is inerrant but not history or science
  3. Inerrancy is confined to certain passages

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