Intro To The Bible Flashcards
Biblical Innerency
The bible is without error in the moral and spiritual sense
What is Divine Inspiration
The Holy Spirit helps human authors write what God wants them to write
Biblical exegesis
Critically interpreting or explaining passages of the bible
Redaction
Edited writings to select and adapt written material
to serve an authors purpose
Hellenism
Acceptance of Greek culture language and traditions
Parousia
2nd coming of Christ
Torah
First 5 books of Bible, Hebrew word meaning “law”
Hebrew people
Descendants of Abraham and Sarah who become known as Israelites later known as Judeans or Jews
Literal Sense of the bible
Meaning conveyed by the words of the exegesis
Exegete
Biblical scholar working to interpret meaning of biblical texts
Spiritual sense
Goes beyond literal sense of words to consider what realities scripture signifies
Allegorical Sense
Looks into how people, events, and things in the literal sense relate back to Christ. It examines Christological significance
Christological
Having to do with branch of theology known as Christology (anything to do with Jesus Christ)
Moral sense
We ask ourselves “How does this passage instruct us to live a better life?” It focuses on the moral sense of the scripture
Anagogical sense
Interprets “realities and events in terms of eternal significance” in what way does this lead of to eternal life?
Analogy of Faith
Unity of doctrines from individual doctrines relating to the rest of Revelation
Fundamentalist approach
Interpretation of bible strictly based on literalist meaning of bibles words without interpretation of historic setting or when teachings first developed
Contextualist approach
Literal sense of scripture informed by science and history
Canon
Collection of books the church recognizes as written by God
Vulgate
In Latin meaning “common” referred to the bible
The bible
A holy book for Christians
Old Testament
“Old”- referring to wise not out of date
Focuses on covenant with God and his people
New Testament
27 books, focused on the work of Jesus and god fulfilling his covenant through him
Gospels
Letters
Acts
Pauline letters
Letters written by Paul
Deutro-Pauline letters
Letters written by other apostles in name of Paul
Pastorals (letters)
Written in regarding life in the church
Catholic letters
Written to the universal
Sacred Scripture
Revealed by God and inspired by Holy Spirit to teach us of gods redeeming love
Sacred Tradition
Handing on of what Jesus taught and did
How was the bible written? (4 step process)
- Incident occurred
- People talked about it
- It was written down
- It was edited
2 paragraph historians
How we write today
- First paragraph- all facts
- Second paragraph- writers opinion
1 paragraph historian
Blended facts and opinions, writer of the older days
How long did it take to write the bible?
About 1000 years, events occurred over a much larger time span
What do the historical books tell about?
Jewish history with many trials and triumphs
The Wisdom Books
Characterized by poetry with emotion and advice on what it means to be wise
Prophetic books
Final section in OT that proclaim messages of religious reformers called by god to stop idolatrous practices and to act justly
Word for word translation
Formal equivalency
Translation of meaning
Dynamic equivalency
