R-Z

Question 1

Redemption

Answer 1

literally “to buy” or “take back”

Question 2

Ressurection

Answer 2

a rising from the dead

Question 3

Revelation

Answer 3

an uncovering,

revealing, or laying bare.

Question 4

Rhetoric

Answer 4

the art of persuasion

Question 5

Righteousness

Answer 5

State of complete liberation from sin

Question 6

Sacrament

Answer 6

“an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace,”

Question 7

Sanctification

Answer 7

the process of being made holy

Question 8

Sanhedrin

Answer 8

Council of Jewish leaders headed by high priest

Question 9

Scribes

Answer 9

a title applied to learned men in postexile Judaism

Question 10

Semitism

Answer 10

a stylistic or linguistic feature characteristic of Hebrew or Aramaic

Question 11

Septugate

Answer 11

the Greek translation of the

Hebrew Old Testament

Question 12

Signs Source

Answer 12

One of the sources of Jesus’s ministry in the fourth gospel

Question 13

Sins

Answer 13

generally any act that violates the law or will of God.

Question 14

Sitz im Leben

Answer 14

(“setting in life”): community setting

Question 15

Soteriology

Answer 15

discourse about salvation.

Question 16

Soul

Answer 16

a spiritual entity, distinct from the body

Question 17

Source Criticism

Answer 17

the work of identifying the written sources that were used in the
composition of any given document

Question 18

Synoptic Problems

Answer 18

relationship between the

Synoptic Gospels

Question 19

Targum

Answer 19

an ancient translation of the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament) into Aramaic

Question 20

Theology

Answer 20

discourse on God

Question 21

Torah

Answer 21

the Hebrew term meaning law or teaching

Question 22

Transcendence

Answer 22

God’s distance from the world

Question 23

Trinity

Answer 23

God exists in three persons

Question 24

Word

Answer 24

literary designation of a complete saying

Question 25

Works

Answer 25

the false means of earning

righteousness