Vocabulary Flashcards
Flesh is literal and
Historical
Soul is typological and
Moral
Spirit is spiritual and
Mystical
How many books in the Old Testament
39 from the Hebrew Bible
What is Tanakh
Acronym for the hebrew bible made up of the Torah, law, Nevi’im, prophets, and Ketuvim, writings
Torah
Law
Nevi’im
Prophets
Ketuvim
Writings
Apocrypha/deuterocanonical
Additional books of the old testament included in Catholic, Orthodox, and some other Old Testament cannons, but not in the Hebrew or Protestant Old Testaments
Pseudepigrapha
Writings attributed to certain persons or groups, but judged as inauthentic
Cannon
The closed list of texts that make up Holy scriptures considered inspired, authoritative and holding unique authority
Theology
Thinking about God, the intentional study of what we believe about GodS and why we believe it
Hermeneutic
A general interpretive philosophy, strategy or approach to understanding what the text means
Exegesis
The process of understanding what the text meant
Eisegesis
Reading our own understanding, perspective and bias into the text
Septuagint LXX
Most influential of the greek version of the Tanakh
Vulgate
4th century latin version of the catholic bible
Dead sea scrolls
Collection of ancient jewish scrolls found in the 1940s near qumran containing some of the oldest known texts found in hebrew and christian bibles
Pericope
A small portion of a text, especially a passage from the Bible