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As Frigge explains it, the foundational event for Israel’s relationship with Yahweh
Involved God’s call to Abraham and his family to travel to Canaan and enter a special relationship with God. wRONG
The Septuagint (LXX) was
he Greek translation of the sacred scripture for Jews living in Greek-speaking parts of the Mediterranean world.
When using the term “divine revelation,” Frigge
Comments on the experience of encountering sacred Scripture: the experience is divine, that is, mystical and deeply meaningful. WRONG
The Pentateuch is
The Christian term for the first five (penta) books of the Bible, the same books in the Jewish Torah.
The word Tanak is
Another word for the Jewish sacred scriptures that includes the first consonant of each of the three parts of these scriptures: T for Torah or law; N for Nevi’im, or prophets; and K for Kethuvim, or other writings.
The terms deuterocanonical and apocryphal refer to
The additional books found in most Protestant Old Testaments but not in the Catholic, Orthodox, and Coptic Old Testament.
WRONG
When Israel first moved to monarchy, they
Began as one kingdom (Israel) that later split to form two kingdoms (Israel and Judah).
What is the difference between the Septuagint (LXX) and the Tanak?
The LXX includes more books than the Tanak, specifically, books written originally in Greek that are not in the Tanak.
An epistle is
One of the writings of the prophets in the Old Testament. WRONG
What is a canon?
A collection of writings that were reviewed by committee for their acceptability as a community’s authoritative texts. fucking wrong
After escaping from enslavement in Egypt, the Israelites entered Canaan where they
d. Lived for about 200 years as a coalition or confederacy of tribes without a centralized ruler like a king.
The southern kingdom of Judah
d. Was destroyed by the Babylonians, who deported many Judeans to Babylon, where work on shaping the Torah began, only to be completed back in Jerusalem, perhaps around 400 BCE.
Why do Catholic, Orthodox, and Coptic Christians have more books in their Old Testament than most Protestants do in theirs?
. Because Luther questioned the accuracy of the Latin translation of the Old Testament, which used the Septuagint as its original document, he decided to return to the earliest content of the Old Testament, the Tanak, which has fewer books than the Septuagint does. Catholics, Orthodox, and Coptic Christians, however, retained all the books in their Latin translations and so have more books in their Old Testament.
The document Dei Verbum calls on Christians to carefully investigate what the Bible means. The writers of this document mean that
Students of the Bible need to consider the historical and cultural context of the Bible as well as its literary features in interpreting Scripture.
The “first and the greatest, the father in faith of all Israelites” is
Abraham.
