Terms 1
means "good news"
gospel
proposed source that makes sense of double tradition material
Q
Greek word meaning "anointed one"
Christ
Day of Atonement
Yom Kippur
another name for the disputed Pauline epistles
deutero-Pauline epistles
The original copy of a literary work
autograph
The Jewish “Law"
Torah
An unnamed figure who appears an the Gospel of John
beloved disciple
Greek word meaning “universal"
catholic
passages in Acts where the narrator slips into first-person narration
"we" passages
The contract between God and Israel in the Jewish imagination
covenant
Writing that does not use spaces
scriptio continua
A literary device in Matthew that connects Jesus’ deeds to prior prophecies
fulfillment citations
The location where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found
Qumran
category to describe 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus
The view that Jesus was not a human but only appeared to be
docetism
The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek
Septuagint
Teachings about the nature of Jesus Christ
Christology
A kind of divine being in the Greco-Roman world (less powerful than gods)
daimonia
early canon list that lacked some NT books accepted today (ex. Revelation)
Muratorian Fragment
An early “Gospel harmony” produced by Tatian
Diatesseron
Town near Nazareth
Sepphoris
The king whose attempts to impose Greek culture ignited the Maccabean revolt
Antiochus Epiphanes
The leader of the Jews’ successful war of independence from Greek rule
Judas Maccabeus
practice of assigning numbers to words/names
Gematria