UCBF 11b Flashcards
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Catholic Epistles
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The New Testament letters, from James to 3 John, identified not by their recipients but by their authors and therefore presumed to be addressed to the universal (“catholic” means “entire”) church.
2
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Epistolary prescript
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A standard salutation or opening
phrase at the beginning of a letter.
3
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Epistle
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A letter, sometimes intended for public reading and therefore written according to a particular literary form.
4
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Synagogue
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An assembly; a congregation. For Jews who were too distant from the Temple to worship at it, and for all Jews after the final destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 Ce, the synagogue became the only form of worship. Services consisted of prayer, song, and study of the sacred text.
