Bible
Interpreting Scripture
People
Literary Genres
Definitions
100
God used the human authors of the books of the Bible as __________ to reveal the truths of Salvation.
What is instruments?
100
Has the final authority to interpret what the Bible teaches.
What is the Magisterium?
100
He translated the Bible into Latin.
Who is St. Jerome?
100
A written account of a person's life.
What is biography?
100
The discovery of these gave scholars access to much earlier versions of the Scriptures.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
200
The New Revised Standard Version
What is a Protestant translation of the Bible?
200
This kind of criticism helps us discover where a biblical author got his material.
What is source criticism?
200
These historians attest to the historical reality of Jesus.
Who are Josephus and Tacitus?
200
A formal statement of religious belief.
What is creed?
200
A type of writing that has a particular style or content.
What is genre?
300
The New Jerusalem Bible
What is a Catholic translation of the Bible?
300
Three ways for interpreting Scripture in accord with the Holy Spirit.
What is according to the content and unity of the whole Scripture, within the living Tradition of the whole Church, and by paying attention to the analogy of faith?
300
Stated that "Ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of Christ."
Who is St. Jerome?
300
A brief story, often using animals, with a moral.
What is fable?
300
Means "without error."
What is inerrant?
400
Greek
What is the language that the New Testament was written in?
400
Seeks to understand both the motivation and historical background in which the text was edited.
What is redaction criticism?
400
He/She reads the Bible in a literalist sense.
What is a fundamentalist?
400
A question or statement that teases the mind.
What is riddle?
400
True or false? The Hebrew Scriptures are revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
What is true?
500
The Bible is the written record of God's _____________.
What is revelation?
500
Teaches us what to believe, how to behave, and what our ultimate goal is.
What are the three spiritual senses of the Bible: allegorical, moral, and anagogical.
500
He said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
Who is Albert Einstein?
500
A story that gives the cause of something.
What is etiology?
500
The process scholars use to discover the meaning of the biblical text.
What is exegesis?
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