Relgion Test #1
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sethbarker on September 14, 2010
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| languages written in |  Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic |
| how many books of the protestant old testament? | 39 |
| how many books of the hebrew bible | 24 |
| how many books of the new testament? | 27 |
| canon | collection of writings that has authority in religious community |
| Second Temple Judaism | the forms of Judaism from 515 BC to 70 CE (the temple formed after the first was destroyed by the Babylonians) |
| Septuagint | translation of Hebrew bible into Greek end of 2nd century BCE |
| Vulgate | The Catholic O.T translation of the bible into Latin 5th century |
| scripture | holy writings |
| canonization | the singling out of writings as authoritative for the faith and practice of a believing community |
| textus receptus | the KJV relied on this (received text) as the basis for translation |
| Author of Pentateuch | Moses (believed) |
| P | The Priestly source |
| Enuma Elish | the other creation story that says many gods together made the world (Babylonian) |
| the fall | Adam and Eve taking the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil |
| etitology | narrative that describes the origin of something |
| Abraham | formally Abram, the father of all who claim Christianity |
| legend | the story of Abraham belongs here |
| Torah | first 5 books of Jewish bible means teaching |
| Neviim | Major and former prophets means prophets |
| Kethuvims | 3rd part of Jewish TaNaK means writings |
| Council of Trent 1546 | reasserted the Vulgate- the apocryphal became "deuterocanonical" |
| Pauline letters | letters written by Paul to the churches |
| Tetraevangelium | four fold gospels one gospel according to 4 different people |
| 367 CE | Festal Letter of Athanasius |
| Festal Letter of Athanasius | 367 CE the singling out of canonization of NT gospel, acts, apostle letters (7), letters of Paul (14), John, Revelations |
| contributing factors to canonization | 1. demise of apostles 2. church centers and communities using it 3. book manufacturing 4. Marcionism 5. Montanism |
| Marcionism | wanting to reduce the # of books believed the God of OT not the God of NT, should eliminate the OT |
| Montanism | group of charismatic "ongoing revelation" God continues to inspire writers so shouldn't limit books |
| Criteria of Canonization | 1. apostolicity 2. Catholicity 3. Orthodoxy 4. Traditional usage 5. Inspiration |
| apostolicity | written by an apposte |
| catholicity | universal message- aplicable to all Christians at all times |
| orthodoxy | consistent with the central teaching of the church |
| traditional usage | how widespread the writing is |
| inspiration | why written, but not first line of defense of early church |
| textual criticism | deciding whether the verses are orginal |
| problems with scriptures | 1. No originals 2. thousands of manuscripts 3. manuscripts don't always agree |
| purposes of textual criticism | 1. recovery of original text 2. reconstruction of transmission of text |
| haplography | accidental omission of text |
| dittography | accidental repetition of text |
| continuous script | script w/o spaces |
| faulty hearing | example: there, their, |
| unintentional changes in text | 1. Haplography 2. Dittography 3. Continuous Script 4. Faulty Hearing 5. No vowels in Hebrew |
| no vowels in Hebrew | unintentional problem in scripture |
| Harmonizations | better understanding |
| Smoothing grammatical difficulties | intentional change to scripture- grammar |
| theological tendencies | intentional change to scripture- to fix unintended theological mistakes |
| intentional changes in text | 1. Harmonization 2. Smoothing grammatical difficulties 3. Theological Tendencies |
| External Evidence of Textual Criticism | be weighted not counted by 1. date of witness (if newer, more yrs for mistakes) 2. geographical distribution (if mistake is in controlled area, probably local change) 3. text types (if resemble 'family') |
| Internal Evidence of Textual Criticism | 1. more difficult is preferred ( scribes try to simplify) 2. shorter reading is preferred (scribes usually add) 3. reading that fits the writers style (follows pattern of the writing) 4. the reading that best explains the other readings in preferred (makes more sense) |
| "In our image"- plural | some think reference to trinity (probably not/ Christian view) *or council of angels (book of Job) *editorial 'we' *majestic plural (kings and queens) one of names of God is Eloine means: (plural for God) *wisdom is an agent of creation (?) (in our image: Jewish understanding) God works with prexisting wisdom |
| separation from water and sky | Some saw the barrier as physical- metal or clay |
| Chaos reasserting itself | the flood |
| Christ and Creation | -agent of creation -sustainer of creation -holding creation together -Jesus is exact imprint of God |
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