The Bible
A collection of writings that Christians consider uniquely inspired by God and authoritative. This book consists of many smaller books, or literary works, and is divided into two main sections, the Old and New Testaments.
What is the Bible?
Is a closed and restricted list of books that Christians view as uniquely authoritative and inspired.
What is the canon?
*comes from the Greek kanon originally meaning reed, measuring rod and later meaning norm or rule. The first person to use the term canon was Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria around A.D. 352. Adopted officially by the church in A.D. 363.
Completed in the year 1611, this incredibly famous translation was named after an English king who ordered its creation.
What is the King James Version (KJV)?
This poetic book tells the story of a faithful man who loses his wealth and family, asking deep questions about why good people suffer.
What is Job?
To understand a verse, you must look at this "C-word," which means the sentences and paragraphs that come right before and after it.
What is context?
The number of books or literary works contained in the Bible.
What is sixty-six?
The number of books included in the Old Testament canon.
What is 39?
Before English translations existed, the Bible was translated into this language of the ancient Roman Empire, which became the official language of the church for centuries.
What is Latin?
*First translated into Latin by Jerome and is known as the Vulgate. (He replaced Yahweh for Dominus - Jewish readers would have never said Yahweh outloud they would say Adonai the equivelant of Dominus, nations/ethnics to Gentiles)
This biblical genre uses metaphors, rhyming thoughts, and deep emotions to praise God.
What is poetry?
*Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes and found throughout other individual books.
When reading a Bible passage, you always want to know who this person is—the one who actually sat down to write it.
Who is the author?
*Dual-authorship! Human authors consciously wrote even as God mysteriously superintended the writing of every word. This is called the Verbal Plenary view of inspiration!
The languages in which the Old and New Testaments were originally written.
What are Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic?
These books or letters were all written between the period A.D. 45~100.
What are the New Testament Books?
A Greek translation of the OT written by a group of 70 ancient Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek long before Jesus was born.
What is the Septuagint? LXX
*Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Kyrios was used in place of Yahweh.
The prophetic books are divided into two main groups based on the length of the books, known as these.
What are the Minor and Major Prophets?
Discovering these ancient leather scrolls in caves in 1947 helped scholars verify that our modern Bible translations are incredibly accurate.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The three major groupings of Old Testament Scripture. Jesus spoke about them in Luke 24 on the road to Emmaus.
What are the Law (Torah), Prophets, and Writings?
Additional books that some Christian sects include in their Old Testaments that Protestants do not consider Scripture.
What is the Apocrypha or the deuterocanonical books (secondly canonical)?
This type of translation tries to match every single original Hebrew or Greek word to its exact English equivalent. Examples would be the ESV, NASB, KJV
What is a word for word translation?
Jesus frequently used this specific type of short, fictional story about everyday objects to teach deeper spiritual lessons.
What is a parable?
If a verse says "The Lord is my shepherd," we interpret it to mean God cares for us as a shepherd cares for a flock, because we know a shepherd is this type of word comparison.
What is a metaphor?
Known as autographs and no longer available to us today, though we have thousands of copies.
What are the original copies of the books of the Bible?
This is the name of the Jewish Bible (Old Testament).
What is the Tanakh?
*The Tanakh contains the same books as the Christian Bible, but arranged in different order and numbered differently.
He was the first person to translate the entire Bible into English, even though the church leaders at the time did not want him to do it.
Who is John Wycliffe?
*Wycliffe died from a stroke in 1384. in 1415, the Council of Constance declared him a heretic. In 1428 his remains were dug up and burned as ordered by Pope Martin V.
This genre uses real events, timelines, and battle records to show how God interacted with the nation of Israel.
What is historical narrative?
When trying to understand a confusing verse, this golden rule of interpretation says you should look at other verses that are much clearer on the same topic.
What is letting Scripture interpret Scripture.