Vocab 2

Question 1

Canon

Answer 1

The official list of inspired books of the Bible

Question 2

Deuterocanonical

Answer 2

Forming a second canon

Question 3

Pentateuch

Answer 3

The First Five books of the Old Testament known as the “Torah”

Question 4

Torah

Answer 4

The sacred books (the First Five books) and “Law of God”

Question 5

Historical Books

Answer 5

Twelve Historical books (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 and 2 Maccabees)

Question 6

Wisdom Books

Answer 6

Seven Wisdom books (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach [also called Ecclesiasticus])

Question 7

Prophetic Books

Answer 7

Eighteen books (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi)

Question 8

Major Prophets

Answer 8

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Daniel (length of the books were much longer)

Question 9

Minor Prophets

Answer 9

All the other books listed (not Lamentations and Baruch) (shorter length of the book)

Question 10

New Covenant

Answer 10

A description of the climax of Salvation history. The promise that God made that said he will forgive the sins of those who follow him

Question 11

Septuagint

Answer 11

The oldest complete edition of the Old Testament in Greek (255 BC)

Question 12

Evangelist

Answer 12

A Latin term that means “Preacher of the Gospel.” A person who proclaims the Good News of Jesus Christ

Question 13

Gnosticism

Answer 13

A generic term for a variety of pre-Christian and early Christian heresies that taught that salvation rests on secret knowledge (varies cults of early Christianity)

Question 14

Gentiles

Answer 14

A term for non-Jews or people not of the Jewish Faith

Question 15

Kerygma

Answer 15

A Greek word which means “proclamation.” The proclamation of the Good News of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection.

Question 16

Didache

Answer 16

The Lord’s Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

Question 17

Catechesis

Answer 17

From a Greek term meaning “instruction by word of mouth”

Question 18

Liturgy

Answer 18

Public worship, the work of Christ, and that of the Church, the Body of Christ.

Question 19

MEMORIZE Jeremiah 31:31, 33

Answer 19

“See, days are coming when I will make a new covenant … I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”