Sacred Scripture
Cast in Bronze
Biblical Characters
The Big Picture
Ordained to Serve
100

This is a name given to the "5" books of Moses.

Pentateuch

100
After the Bronze Age collapse, societies rebuilt into this stronger-metal age.

Iron Age

100

This character was a non-Israelite that bound herself to her Mother-in-Law and is eventually redeemed by Boaz.

Ruth

100

Why does YHWH place a Cherubim with a flaming sword at the East end of the Garden?

To prevent Adam and Eve from partaking of the Tree of Life after the fall.

100

This Greek word means "server".

Diakonos

200

This was the term used by the Jewish peoples for their scriptures, which is predicated on the three categories into which the texts are broken up.

Tanakh

200

This Covenant mediator was around during the mid-to-late bronze age in Egypt. How about those chariots and charioteers?

Moses

200

This character is called by God to "Take yourself and Go!" from his homeland in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Abram

200

Meaning "to enflesh", this term is used to describe Christ's entrance into the world.

The Incarnation

200

This is the tunicle-like garment worn by deacons during the mass

Dalmatic
300

These Seven books, known as the deuterocanonicals  or didactic books, are contested by protestants as being part of the canon of the Bible.

Tobit, Baruch, Sirach, Wisdom, Maccabees 1, Maccabees 2, Judith

300

This ceremony followed the declaration of a Bronze-Age covenant and served to put it into effect.

Oaths and Ratification Ceremony

300

He is the intended sacrifice on top of Mount Moriah in what is known as the "Aquedah" or "The Binding".

Isaac

300

This Jewish celebration is elevated ritually from commemoration to efficacious re-presentation as Christ commissions the New and Eternal Covenant in the Mass.

Passover

300

This man was one of the first seven deacons and considered the proto-martyr.

Saint Stephen

400

This Greek version of the Old Testament was established by Ptolemy II of Egypt around 285 B.C. 

Septuagint

400

In the rigid form of the bronze-age covenant, this part discussed where the covenant would be stored.

Deposition and Periodic Reading

400

This King of Jerusalem' coronation  is remembered as Christ enters into Jerusalem on a donkey.

Solomon

400

This term describes how Christ's two natures are bound together in his person 

Hypostatic Union

400

Whereas priests, by ordination are conformed to Christ the head, Deacons are conformed to Christ in this capacity.

Christ the Servant

500

This book is quoted by Jesus as he stands before Pilate, using the phrase "Son of Man".

Daniel

500

These were the patriarchs of the Hittite and Akkadian Treaty that we read in class.

Duppi Teshub and Mursilis II

500

The character, who got out of sorts with a donkey, is not an Israelite, but was used as a mouthpiece for YHWH.

Bala'am

500

As Christians, this is our end and final cause.

The Beatific Vision (Union with God)

500

These five clerical ranks were originally received before the order of Deacon.

Porter, Exorcist, Lector, Acolyte, Subdeacon

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