Week 10: 61-70

Question 1

Parable

Answer 1

an extended metaphor or comparison in story form drawn from nature or common life, which arrests the hearer by its vividness or strangeness and leaves the mind in sufficient doubt about its precise application to tease it into active thought.

Question 2

Parousia

Answer 2

the anticipated return of the Risen Christ to exercise judgment upon the world and to gather all the faithful into eternal unity with the Father

Question 3

Pericope

Answer 3

a unit of biblical material which allows for exegetical study as a cohesive unit, such as a single parable, a miracle story, a birth account etc., as opposed to larger blocks of material also examined in the course of developing a biblical interpretation

Question 4

Pharisees

Answer 4

HB “separated ones”; a largely lay sect of Judaism most likely derived from the Hasidim (“the pious ones”), who first supported the Maccabees’ cause against Greek persecutions of the Second Century BC, but later separated themselves in opposition to the claims of John Hyrcanus to the high priesthood (140 BC). The Pharisees were a reform-minded group, known for their devotion to the precepts of the written Torah and to the oral Torah of the great scribal teachers, for their belief in the resurrection of the dead, and their hope for a coming messiah to restore Israel’s freedom and glory

Question 5

Pronouncement Story

Answer 5

a short illustrative story of an event which has as its climax a saying of Jesus, often found in a didactic or controversial setting; called a Paradigm by M. Dibelius and an Apothegm by R. Bultmann

Question 6

Prophet

Answer 6

GK prophetes “one who speaks for another”; the term designates one who communicates the divine will in and/or divine perspective on the events of his times. Jewish tradition distinguishes former prophets (the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings) and latter prophets (the three major prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel; and the twelve minor prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi).

Question 7

Proverb

Answer 7

strictly speaking, a popular saying drawn from the observation of experience rather than learning or schooling, expressed in a succinct way and often employing wordplay and other literary devices

Question 8

Providentissimus Deus

Answer 8

Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on biblical studies (November 18, 1893), which fostered scholarship in ancient languages and the use of critical methods to study biblical manuscripts, and initiated a plan for Catholic biblical studies to be supportive of church teachings

Question 9

Pseudepigrapha

Answer 9

GK “false writing”; a false claim to authorship; the term is used for ancient Jewish and Christian writings which carried the name of an ancient figure, generally a biblical character, in order to support their status with those writings already accepted as authoritative. In Protestant usage the term is often used to designate works that are not included in the canon.

Question 10

Q Sayings Source

Answer 10

a non-extant, hypothetical collection of sayings of Jesus written in Aramaic, possibly at Antioch circa 50 AD, and later rendered in Greek, later still drawn upon as a source for the gospels of Matthew & Luke; called “Q” from Quelle, German for “source”