What is the Bible?
If we say the Bible is the _____ we mean that the Spirit of God was involved in all stages of it's formation.
What is the Inspired Word of God?
This critical method of the literal sense asks what it was like during the time of when a passage or book of the Bible was written.
What is historical criticism?
This is how we would cite John, chapter eleven, verses three to fifteen.
What is Jn 11:3-15?
These are the types of narratives (or stories) found in the book of Genesis.
What are the creation narratives (or stories)?
This is how we would cite Mark, chapter thirteen, verse five plus one more verse.
What is Mk 13:5 f?
Before the books of the Bible were written down, they were shared through this tradition.
What is the oral tradition?
This is a reading of the Bible that interprets everything literally.
What is a literalistic or literalist reading?
This is how we would cite Mark, chapter thirteen, verse five plus a few more verses
What is Mk 13:5 ff?
The three main stages in the Formation of the Old Testament.
What are the oral tradition, written word, and editing?
This is how we would cite Mark, chapter thirteen, verses five, eleven, and sixteen.
What is Mk 13:5, 11, 16?
This is the original language of the Old Testament.
What is Hebrew?
This "sense" or reading the Bible aims to find the author's intended message to the reader, rather than a literal reading.
What is the literal sense?
This is how we would cite John, Chapter eleven, verse three plus one more verse.
What is Jn 11:3 f?
This is what we call the first five books of the Old Testament (the Ancient Greek name)
What is the Pentateuch?
This is the abbreviation of the Bible translation we use in this class.
What is the NABRE?
This is the first language that the Bible was translated into.
What is Greek?
This "sense" or way of reading the Bible has an explicit Catholic or Christian focus that draws from certain beliefs.
What is the spiritual sense?
This is how we would cite Matthew, chapter seven, verses twelve to fifteen and twenty three.
What is Mt 7: 12-15, 23?
This is the Kingdom that exiled the Hebrew people in 587 B.C.
What is the Babylonian Kingdom?
This is the critical method of the literal sense that focuses on the editor's intentions.
What is redaction criticism?
The Bible was eventually translated into Latin because this empire took over the region of Israel/Palestine.
What is the Roman Empire?
This critical method of the literal sense asks, "what type or genre of book is this?"
What is Form Criticism?
This is how we would cite Matthew, chapter seven, verses twelve to fifteen and chapter ten verses one to five.
What is Mt 7:12-15; 10:1-5?
These five books are the first five books of the Old Testament (and therefore, of the entire Bible itself)
What are the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers.?
This critical method of the literal sense asks what the information an author used to orally transmit and write is from.
What is source criticism?