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Introduction To Sacred Scripture Flashcards

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1
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The Bible is the _________ _____ of God

A

inspired word

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What does the Church teach?

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  • God is the author of the Bible
  • the Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the sacred books
  • the Sacred Scriptures teach the Truth
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3
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What is Inspiration?

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God is the author of the Bible—he used the human authors as his instrument to convey Divine Revelation to us. The end product is the inerrant Word of God.

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We must ____ __________ to what the ________ ________ wished to say and to what God wanted to ________ through their words.

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pay attention, human authors, reveal

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5
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What did Vatican II have to say about Scripture?

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Scripture must be read in the light of the same Spirit by whom it was written.

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What did Vatican II tell us that we need to do?

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  • Note the content and unity of the whole Scripture
  • “Read the Scriptures within ‘the living Tradition of the whole Church’”
  • Pay attention to the “analogy of faith”
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What is vitally important in scriptural interpretation?

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Identifying the correct literary genre. This helps to determine the literal sense of the biblical sense.

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8
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List the literal forms of the Bible

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  • historical book
  • prophecy
  • poetry
  • letters
  • genealogies
  • miracle stories
  • parables
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What does literal interpretation take into account?

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It takes into account what the author intended to convey.

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What does literalist interpretation ignore?

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It ignores various literary forms and the cultural and historical factors of the period in which the biblical authors wrote.

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Explain literal sense

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What the author intended by the words he wrote; teaches history, what the words say in a historical context

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Explain spiritual sense

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Looks to the deeper meaning of various scriptural passages as part of God’s overall plan of Salvation

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Explain allegorical sense

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Teaches what you should believe; what the word means in the larger context of Salvation History

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Explain moral sense

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Teaches what you should do regarding how to live your life

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Explain anagogical sense

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Teaches where you are going; building up the virtue of hope while leading us to Heaven

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16
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Most of the Old Testament was written in ________

A

Hebrew

17
Q

The New Testament was written in _____ _______

A

“koine” Greek

18
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In 390, St. Jerome completed the Latin Translation of both Testaments— the __________

A

Vulgate

19
Q

There have been almost _____ new translations of individual books of the Bible

A

500

20
Q

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of ________.”

-St. Jerome

A

Christ

21
Q

Vulgate means what?

A

“the version commonly used”

22
Q

Name some versions of Protestant bibles

A
  • King James Version
  • New Revised Standard Version
  • Revised English Bible
  • New International Version
23
Q

Name some Catholic versions of bible

A
  • Douay—Rheims Version
  • New American Bible
  • New Jerusalem Bible
24
Q

What is the importance of the Bible for Catholics?

A

• Scripture readings are integral to every Mass and all the sacraments
•

25
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How does the Catholic Church teach us to read Scripture?

A

prayerfully and interpreting it critically

26
Q

The Magisterium authentically interprets the Word of God with the help of who?

A

biblical scholars

27
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What are the types of “criticisms”?

A
  • historical criticism
  • source criticism
  • form criticism
  • redaction criticism
28
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Is “criticism” to be understood as a negative word?

A

no

29
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What does historical criticism try to determine?

A

the historical context of the biblical text

30
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What does source criticism help discover?

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where the biblical authors got their material

31
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What does form criticism involve?

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studying small units of biblical texts to attempt to determine how each book took shape during oral tradition before being written down

32
Q

define redaction criticism

A

how the various editors put together their sources and arranged them the way they did

33
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Who was St. Jerome?

A

an important church father and translator of the bible from its original languages

34
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What did St. Jerome do that received much negativity?

A

he used his pen to write fierce letters to his opponents

35
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What did St. Augustine say about St. Jerome?

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“What Jerome is ignorant of, no man has ever known.”

36
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What is a famous quote said by St. Jerome?

A

“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”

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