Hebrew words
• "joint obligation between relatives, friends, hosts and guest, master and servant; closeness, solidarity loyalty...[covenant] comes about by a ceremony [_______] results from the closer relationship between two people...faithfulness, goodness, graciousness...(God's) proofs of mercy."
Hesed
• The Tabernacle was manufactured at ______ _____ and used as the central place of Israelite worship until the building of the Temple of Solomon.
Mount Sinai
• Jewish Scripture translate to Greek translation now known as the _______ _____Latin for "Seventy
• __________________is the Hebrew form of the books of the Jewish Bible, the form used for chant and proclamation in traditional Jewish synagogues to this day. It takes its name from the ____________, a school of Jewish scribes that flourished between A.D. 700 to 1000.
• The sacred scripture of the Samaritan community consists of the 5 Books of Moses, similar Ito the Torah but variations in text and interpretation.
Septuagint (LXX)
Masoretic text (MT)
Samaritan Pentateuch
• _________ forms a compound sentence by placing to or more sentences "side-by-side".
• ________forms a complex sentence by combining a main clause (i.e., a simple sentence) with a dependent clause by some form of subordination
• The Heavens and the Earth Classical Hebrew uses the literary technique called ______ by which the author mentions the two extremes to indicate the whole.
Parataxis
Hypotaxis
Merism
• The crossing of the Red Sea was a type of _______
• The ________: Day of Rest and Wordship
In such a way, the seventh or ___________ day becomes a climactic event that marks the culmination of the creation narrative.
Baptism
Sabbath
• Out of 541 occurrences in the Hebrew OT, only 10 times is it used to refer to man in the sense of male. (see Gen 1:26)
• Male (Hebrew word) vs Female (Hebrew word)
• None of the animals can be man's partner, contrast of eve with the animals
Adam
zakar, neqebah
A helper fit for him
• to “serve” or “worship” (Hebrew ‘abad) him on Mount Sinai (sometimes called _________ _________) (Exod 3:12).
Mount Horeb
• The divine Name revealed to Moses at the burning bush, written sun four letters , "YHWH"
• The Daily Sacrifice (__________) | Exod 29:38-46 2.3.1. The lamb offered daily and the flour (bread) and the wine.
• The word "generations" or "genealogy" in Hebrew is ____________, meaning including "history," "origin," "narrative."
Tetragramaton
Tamid offering
Toledoth
• The _______ _____ is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation
• The _________ _____. Thanks to the unity of God’s plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.
Literal sense
Spiritual sense
• ____________: A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being involving mutual commitments or guarantees.The Bible refers to God's __________with Noah, Abraham, and Moses as leader of the chosen people, Israel [and David].
• The existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls "_______" is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition (CCC 328)
Covenants
Angel
• __ ______ (_______) vs. ___ ____(_____)“In the beginning God _______ the heavens and the earth”: three things are affirmed in these first words of Scripture: the eternal God gave a beginning to all that exists outside of himself; he alone is Creator
To create (bara) vs to form (yasar)
• on ______ ______ (2 Chron 3:1) Remember the binding of Isaac and the parallels between Isaac and Jesus. The sacrifice of Jesus takes place in Jerusalem= ______ _____
Mount Moriah
• ______ _______The divine plan of Revelation is realized simultaneously “by deeds and words which are intrinsically bound up with each other” and shed light on each other. It involves a specific _________
• How the biblical text has been interpreted in the doctrine, life, and worship of the Church, transmits, the entirety of the Word of God which has been entrusted to the Apostles by Christ and the Holy Spirit. Transmit to successors of the apostles.
• ______ _________ is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit.”(Vatican II, Dei Verbum, §9; quoted in CCC 81)
Divine pedagogy
Sacred Tradition
Sacred Scripture
• The __________ __________ _____. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ’s victory and also of Christian Baptism.
Allegorical (Typological) sense
• _______, a Ritual Act | Exod 12:1-32, 43-51; 13:1-16 3.1.1. from slavery to freedom through worship, both in the Old and the New Covenant 3.1.2. Jesus as the __________Lamb
• __________ (miraculous bread from Heaven given by God to sustain the people of Israel during their wilderness wanderings) / Eucharist
• These lines, especially the opening verse, have become the central prayer and creed of Judaism, called __________, from its first Hebrew word, meaning "Hear!" (Deut 6:4).
Passover
Manna
Shema
• ___________ _________ ___________ _____1.3.1. “The Hebrew word bara’, “to create” (Gen 1:1), is only ever used in the Bible with God as its subject and never with an accusative of material indicating a substance from which he created. However, the newly existent creation is not called into existence in a finished state; the sacred author notes that it was “without ____ and ____” (Gen 1:2).
• Creator, Spirit (____), and Word The Spirit fittingly moved over the earth. God made a wind (____) The Hebrew word _______is a dynamic term with a wide range of meanings, most often translated as "spirit," "wind," or "breath".
formlessness ( תֹ ה וּ , tohû) void ( בֹ ה וּ , bohû)
Breath/wind/spirit (רוַּח,rūaḥ):
• Where Moses instructs the Israelites to pronounce blessings and curses upon entering the promised land.
12 When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on ________ _______to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.
Mount Gerazim
• a _____ _____ and the test of faith
• a _______ _______ and the test of hope
• __________ __________ and the test of love
• (Greek, "appearance of God") A supernatural manifestation of God in the world. Normally a __________ is a dramatic display of divine glory in a way that is visible (e.g., fire, clouds, lightning), audible (e.g., thunder, trumpet blast, divine voice), or otherwise sensible (e.g., earthquake, strong winds).
Great Nation
Great Name
Universal blessing
Theophany
• 1. attentiveness to the content and
unity of the whole Scripture
2. reading the Scripture within the living Tradition of the whole
church
3. attentiveness to the analogy of faith
Vatican II's Three Criteria for interpreting Scripture
• For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and _________, the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself." (CCC 105b)
• Typology thus reveals the unity of ______ ________as a carefully orchestrated plan that God unfolds in stages of ever increasing fulfillment.
• The _________ __________ is God’s plan of salvation, revealed through His actions in history and fulfilled in Jesus Christ. It encompasses creation, revelation, the Incarnation, the Church, and the final restoration of all things. The Catechism emphasizes that this plan is rooted in God’s love and wisdom and is the common work of the Trinity. It is communicated to humanity through the Church and the sacraments and will be fully realized in the eschaton.
Canon
Salvation History
Divine Economy
• Man/husband vs Woman/Wife
• Boaz becomes both Ruth's husband and her "________ _________" (go'el, גֹּ אֵ ל ), pointing forward to Jesus, Bridegroom and Redeemer of the Church.
• ______ of Peor (Num 25); __________: a Canaanite storm and fertility god, whom the people of Israel were often tempted to worship instead of or in addition to Yhwh, the one true God. The name _______ means "owner, lord, master, or husband"
• The Sacrifice (Hebrew Tradition: "_______ ________", הָ ﬠֲקֵי דָ ה ) of Isaac
Ish (husband), Ishah (wife)
Kinsman redeemer (go'el)
Baal
the binding (ha aqeda)
• Where Moses instructs the Israelites to pronounce blessings and curses upon entering the promised land. The mountain became the sight where the curses were proclaimed.
13 And these shall stand on _____ ____ for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali
Mount Ebal
• The Prophets are divided into the "_______", corresponding to the historical books Joshua through 2 Kings. The "________", corresponding to Isaiah through Malachi (Prophets)
• ________: A person, event, or object in the Old Testament that prefigures or symbolizes something greater in the New Testament.
• The movement from "types" to the realities they signify, called "_________," is always a movement from the lesser to the greater. _________: The fulfillment or reality of the type, often found in the person, work, or teachings of Jesus Christ or in the New Covenant
• The Jewish Bible is often called the _________. This word is an acronym formed from the first letters of the three divisions of the Jewish Scriptures: the Torah ("Law"), the Nevi'im ("Prophets"), and the Ketuvim ("Writings") (cf. Lk 24:44). The Law corresponds to the Books of Moses, or the Pentateuch.
Former Prophets vs Latter Prophets
Type
Antitype
TaNaK
• The __________ _____ (Greek: ________, “leading”). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our true homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem.
• The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written "for our instruction."
Anagogical sense
Moral (tropological) sense
• A treaty which was generally imposed by a high king on a lesser king who had been rebellious.
• The tent sanctuary that Israel transported through the wilderness.
• When David becomes king
• __: Refers to the years before the estimated birth of Jesus; __: A Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the Lord," which refers to the years after the estimated birth of Jesus.
• ___: The secular, non-religious version of BC; __: The secular, non-religious version of AD.
Vassal Treaty
Tabernacle
1,000 BC
B.C./A.D.
B.C.E./C.E.