Vocabulary
The handing on of the realities of the Christian faith
What is Sacred Tradition?
The meaning of "Bible"
What is books?
The Catholic Bible is broken up into these two major sections
What are the Old Testament and the New Testament?
This section of the Bible describes events from ~2000 BC to ~100 BC
Step 3 of lectio divina
What is pray?
The teaching authority of the Catholic Church
What is the Magisterium?
The written account of divine revelation
What is Sacred Scripture?
The Catholic Bible has this many books in total
What is a dogma?
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
This word indicates that the Bible makes no errors in its presentation of the saving truth God wanted to make known
What is inerrant?
The body, or sum total, of the saving truths which God entrusted to his Church
What is the deposit of faith?
The Old Testament is made up of these four canonical groups, in order.
What are the Torah/Pentateuch, the Historical Books, the Wisdom Literature, and the Prophets?
This section of the Bible describes events from ~0 to ~100 AD
What is the New Testament?
In this type of culture, reading and writing are rare
What is an oral culture?
This word indicates that the Bible is God's word "breathed out" in human words
What is inspiration?
Before the stories of the Bible were written down, they were handed on this way
What is orally/through storytellers/through speaking?
The Catholic Bible has this many books in the Old Testament
What is 46?
These people were professional writers who physically wrote the Biblical books
Who are scribes?
This psalm is a doxology
What is Psalm 150?
Who are tradents?
An agreement with mutual commitments which joins two parties together
What is a covenant?
These seven books are in the Catholic Old Testament, but not in the Protestant Old Testament.
What are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), (Wisdom of) Ben Sira, and Baruch?
Ancient books were written on scrolls before this kind of book, bound on the side, developed
By the 4th century BC, this language had spread across the ancient near east
What is Greek?
The original language that most of the Old Testament books were written down in
What is Hebrew?
The name of the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament collection
What is the septuagint?
Unlike the Catholic Old Testament, the Jewish Bible has only three canonical groups, from which they derive this name for the Bible
What is the Tanakh?
This man conquered and spread his language and culture, resulting in the need for a translation of the Biblical books
Who is Alexander the Great?
Step 4 of lectio divina
What is contemplate?
Writing surface made from animal skins
What is parchment?
The authoritative list of inspired books which belong in the Bible
What is the canon?
The Three Canonical groupings of the Tanakh
Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim
The number of books in the Protestant Old Testament
What is 39?
Thomas Merton was this kind of monk