Vocabulary
Biblical Exegesis
Literary Genres
The Bible
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A Greek word that means “books,” a collection of sacred books containing the truth of God’s Revelation.
What is the Bible?
100
The critical interpretation and explanation of a biblical text.
What is Biblical Exegesis?
100
True or false: It is not important to understand the literary genre that the author of the bible passage was writing in.
What is false?
100
This person is the source of Scripture.
Who is God?
100
A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made.
What is a covenant?
200
From the Latin redemptio, meaning “a buying back,” referring, in the Old Testament, to Yahweh’s deliverance of Israel and, in the New Testament, to Christ’s deliverance of all Christians from the forces of sin.
What is Redemption?
200
This sense of Scripture asks us to look at what the author is actually trying to say.
What is the Literal Sense?
200
Authors in the bible occasionally use these, which are comparisons of one thing to another, using the word "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
What are the two MAIN sections in the Bible?
What are the Old and New Testament?
200
Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the synthesis in written form of the message of salvation that has been passed down in the oral tradition.
What is written tradition?
300
The celebration of the entire Mass. The term sometimes refers specifically to the consecrated bread and wine that have become the Body and Blood of Christ.
What is the Eucharist?
300
This sense of Scripture teaches us how to act; how to do good and avoid sin.
What is the moral sense?
300
Authors in the bible occasionally use these, it's when you apply a word or phrase to an object that isn't applicable.
What is a metaphor?
300
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What is the number of books in the entire bible?
300
Saint Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible completed in the early fifth century AD.
What is the Vulgate?
400
The use of philosophical methods to better understand revealed truth in Sacred Scripture.
What is Scholastic Theology?
400
This sense of Scripture always points us to Christ.
What is allegorical sense?
400
This genre: "Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar.Perez became the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz..."
What is a family genealogy?
400
This guy translated the bible into Latin; now known as the Vulgate.
Who is St. Jerome?
400
A term used by Catholics to refer to the seven Old Testament books in the Catholic canon that have been excluded/removed from the Protestant Bible.
What is Deuterocanonical?
500
A solemn vow and contract to which God is a witness. It is a synonym of covenant.
What is Testament?
500
This sense of scripture that points us to heaven.
What is the Anagogical Sense?
500
This literary genre: "One is not a Jew outwardly. True circumcision is not outward, in the flesh. Rather, one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit, not the letter; his praise is not from human beings but from God."
What is complicated theology?
500
St. Timothy said that these things are the purpose of Sacred Scripture.
What is teaching, reproof, correction, and teaching in righteousness?
500
The coherence of individual doctrines with the whole of Revelation. Each doctrine is connected with Revelation, each doctrine is also connected with other doctrines.
What is analogy of faith?
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