Week 7: 51-60 Flashcards
Medieval Senses
Medieval scholars generally assigned four potential meanings to any given biblical texts; historical or literal: what actually happened; allegorical or doctrinal: what is believed; moral or tropological: what is to be done; anagogical or mystical: where life ends (eschatological)
Messiah
HB “anointed one”, GK “Christos”; a term used in the OT to refer to the reigning king who is regarded as ruling as God’s representative and in later usage to refer to that ideal one who would come to establish God’s kingdom on earth
Midrash
HB “to search”; a retelling of or an interpretation of commentary on an OT passage by expansion of the biblical story for didactic purposes; this method of interpretation was popular among the Jewish rabbis of the pre-Christian and early Christian centuries.
Miracle Story
a narrative presenting an account of a marvelous deed of Jesus, often in a pattern of: 1) a setting of need or a serious problem, 2) the cure by gesture (word and/or action) of Jesus, and 3) the response by the recipient and/or crowd). Called a novelle by M. Dibelius and a tale by V. Taylor.
Modernism
an attempt at the turn of the 20th century to bring Roman Catholic doctrine into closer relationship with the views advanced by the modern sciences of philosophy, history, and the social sciences. Its erroneous tenets were condemned by Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907)
Muratorian Fragment (Canon)
a Latin fragment found in Milan (1740) dating to the seventh or eighth century, from an original Greek document of 180-200 AD; attests to a canon or list of 22 NT books. It excludes Hebrews, James, 1 & 2 Peter, or 3 John but includes Wisdom of Solomon and the Apocalypse of Peter.
Myth
a symbolic story used in a cultic setting to demonstrate the inner meaning of the universe and human life and to express in narrative the deepest realities of human existence
Narrative Criticism
the discipline which studies the narrative features of biblical texts as a means of interpreting their meaning including such elements as character, plot development, narrative points of view and techniques of narration, etc
New Literary Criticism (Close Reading Analysis)
the study of biblical texts as literature with attention to the narrative features (setting, character, plot development, and narrator techniques, etc) and stylistic features (repetition, imagery, semantic fields, etc) of the text that contribute to the text’s meaning for the reader.
New Testament Letters
Generally treated in several groups:
Early Pauline: 1 & 2 Thess
Major Pauline: Gal, Ph, 1 & 2 Cor, Romans
Captivity Epistles (letters said to have been written while Paul was in prison): Col, Philemon, Eph, and some include Ph.
Pastoral Epistles: to pastors in Ephesus (1 & 2 Timothy) and Crete (Titus)
Catholic Epistles: the whole church (James, Jude, 1 & 2 Peter, 1,2, & 3 John, and Hebrews [which is no longer attributed to Paul])
