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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Canon | an official list of books belonging to the bible, both the old and new. |
| Testament | collection of books written over the course of a millennium. |
| Deuterocanonical | a term meaning "second canon." Books included in the Catholic Old Testament but not in the Hebrew Bible. These additions are 1 and 2 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach, and Wisdom, and parts of Esther and Daniel. |
| Apocrypha | another name for the deuterocanonical books and verses. means hidden. |
| Tradition | the process and content of the transmission of official Church beliefe, doctrines, rituals, scripture, and the like. |
| Magisterium | the teaching authority of the Church concerning issues of faith and morals. Consists of the pope and the college of bishops acting together |
| Pseudepigrapha | ancient books from the same time frame as the books of the bible, especially the new testament. The church decided these books were not inspired by God and could not be included in the canon of the Bible. |
| Archaeology | the science of studying material remains past of past human life and activities. |
| Artifact | something created by past humans, usually for a specific purpose (tools, pottery, clothing, etc.) |
| Torah | Law (law in hebrew)- includes first five books of the bible |
| Neviim | Prophets (in Hebrew)- |
| Ktuviim | writings (in Hebrew) |
| Pentateuch | five books that include Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy |
| Typology | the study of writings that have common traits. |
| Critical reading | a number of methods of studying the bible that aim to discover what God is communicating-both to the people of the bible and the people of today |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | documents found near the dead sea discovered in 1947 and 1950 |
| TaNaK | acronym of three Hebrew words. Term often used as a short hand by modern jews to refer to the bible |
| 5 books of law (Torah, Pentateuch) | Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy |
| Prophetic Books | Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi |
| Historical Books | Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees |
| Wisdom Books | Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, song of songs, wisdom, Sirach |
| Timeline Order | About 1260 BC- Exodus under leadership of moses, 1230 BC monarchy, 922 Deach of Solomon with the divison of two new states. Unite Kingdom divides, 722- fall of northen kingdom to assyrians, 640- reign of king Josiah, 587- Babylonian exile, 450- Hebrews moved back to Palestine under the persians |
| What is the catholic understanding of inspiration? | things in the bible are written by authors who are inspired by God |
| What does critical reading of the Bible mean? | a careful examination of what God is trying to tell us in the bible readings |
| Context | the historical, cultural, social, or political circumstances surround an event or record |
| Pictograms | the earliest form of writing in which pictures represent words or ideas |
| Scribes | people trained to write using the earliest forms of writing before literacy was widespread |
| Hieroglyphics | an ancient form of Egyptian writing, more stylized than pictograms but not based on an alphabet |
| Prehistoric | refers to events or objects that date to a time before writing developed and written records exist |
| Rosetta Stone | allowed Greek readers to work out the Egyptian translations |
| Canaan | the land God chose as a homeland for the Israelites |
| Hyksos period | when the Canaanites invaded and briefly controlled Egypt. |
| Ugarit | a city located on what is today the Syrian coast and destroyed by the Israelites |
| Parable | a tale or story |
| Phoenician | a Canaanite |
| Primeval history | stories or myths about the origins of the earls, humans, other creatures, languages, and cultures |
| Syncretism | a blend of two or more religious traditions |
| Israel | northern kingdom |
| Judah | southern kingdom |
| Diaspora | lands other than Palestines that extended from Egypt far into the east beyond Babylon and into Persian territory |
| Bablyonian Exile | exile of the Babylonians |
| Apocalyptic literature | literatura often describes as strange, bizarrem and involving highly symbolic visions |
| Significance of the Rosetta Stone? | helped translate Greek writings |
| How did the location of Israel impact the lives of the chosen people? | it helped with better military and war issues |
| Myths | symbolice sotries that express a spiritual truth or a basic belief about God |
| Ancestor | any person to whom you are related by blood who comes before you on a family tree |
| Primeval history | stories or myths about the origins of the earls, humans, other creatures, languages, and cultures |
| Polytheism | worship of many gods |
| Monotheism | worship of one god |
| Covenant | sacred promise or agreement |
| Original justice | the states of grace that Adam and Ever were originally created in |
| Original sin | very first sin |
| Paganism | the profession of no religion |
| Patriarch | many rulers, leaders, or elders. The patriarchs of faith of Israel are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
| Matriarch | female version of the Patriarch |
| Enuma Elisha | an ancient tablet |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | a Mesopotamian poem of one of the most famous flood myths |
| Story cycles | seires of short stories in Genesis that are centered around a particular character or group of characters |
| Circumsion | the surgical removal of the male foreskin; physical sign of the covenant with God |
| Adam | first man tempted by his wife to eat fruit from the tree of good and evil |
| Eve | first woman |
| Noah | man told by God to build an ark because a flood would come and take 2 of each animal |
| Abraham | father of all believers |
| Sarah | abrahams wife |
| Hagar | slave girl whome Abraham bore a child with because Sarah could not be barren |
| Isaac | child Abraham had with Sarah |
| Ishmael | child Abraham had with Hagar |
| Jacob | youngest son of Isaac and Rebekah |
| Esau | first born son of Isaac and Rebekah |
| Laban | Rebekah's brother |
| Rachel | daughter of Laban whom Jacob falls in love with |
| Rebekah | Isaac's wife |
| Leah | rachel's older sister who Jacob was tricked into marrying by Laban |
| Joseph | Jacob's son |
| Terms of the covenant that God made with Abraham? | make him a great nation and bless him, make his name great, bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you |
| Masha | Hebrew name meaning "to draw out" |
| Moses | led the Israelites into the holy land |
| Yahweh | another name for God |
| Elohim | another name for God |
| Adonai | another name for God |
| Jesus | son of God and Mary |
| Plagues | a horrifying event happening to a group of people |
| 10th plague | death of the first born |
| Passover | event when the angel of death passed over the doorposts with the blood of a lamb |
| Murmurings | the stories in the books of Exodus of the complaints of the Israelites in the desert against Moses and against God |
| Elders | mature, usually male members of the Isralelite community who met regularly to rule on specific disputes within the community |
| Mt. Sinai | where the Israelites make an agreement with God that they will fully become people in which the promise of the savior can be fulfilled |
| Sinai Covenant | covenant between God and the Israelites about them fully becoming part of the promise of the savior |
| Natural law | the participation of man in God's eternal law that reveals what he intends us to do and avoid according to his wise and loving plan |
| Covenant Code | codes of the covenant |
| Deuteronomic Code | codes of deuteronomy |
| Levitical Code | codes on leviticus |
| Punitive justice | laws that rely on punishment as a deterrent to criminal activity |
| Restorative justice | laws that are concerned primarily with restoring community after an offense has occurred |
| Jubilee | every seventh sabbatical year. All debts were to be forgiven and wealth of the community would be distributed to the poor |
| Birth stories | stories in the bible about rare births |
| List the Ten Commandments | 1. You shall have no other God's before me, You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain, Keep holy the Sabbath day, Honor your father and mother, You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not cover your neighbors goods, You shall not covet your neighbor's wife |
| Deuteronomic history | the six books of the Bible influenced in their language and theology by the book of Deuteronomy, including Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2, Samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings |
| Jericho | where a battle was fought and they destroyed its wall. Israelites spies were helped by Rahab. |
| Miracle warfare | the idea, unique to the Israelites, that God will fight, not just with them, but for them |
| Just war theory | teachings of the Church that define the moral limits of warfare |
| Pacifist Tradition | The belief that problems should not be solved by violence. |
| Judge | in the ancient Israel, one who acted as a temporary military leader, as well as arbiter of disputes within and between. Judges were also expected to remind the people of their responsibilities to God |
| Shofet | A Hebrew word that means judge. |
| Levirate marriage | the marriage of a widow to a near relative of her deceased husband. The first male child of a levirate marriage would be considered a legal son of the widow's first husband |
| Nazorite vow | has five different requirements, can be done by either men or women, specific time frame, specific requirements and restrictions. its conclusion a sacrifice is offered. Dedicate yourself completely to God. |
| Bet Av | the basic social unit of the Israelite society, a patriarchal household of immediate and extended family members. |
| Mishpachah | the Hebrew word for "clan" that was an association of related Bet Avs, gathered together to help with planting and harvesting, and with defense against aggressive neighbors. |
| Tribe | Israelites emerging as people. were identified by the geographical regions of where they were located. |
| Josiah | the last independent king of Judah and one of only two kings to receive unmitigated praise in the Old Testament. He was killed in battle with the Egyptians |
| Rahab | central character in the fall of Jericho. She is also a prostitute |
| Joshua | A judge who was put after Moses. He made an Israelite army to attack the Promised Land. |
| Jabin | A king who reigned in Hazor |
| Deborah | is both a prophetess and a judge |
| Gideon | following time of Deborah, he led the people as a judge and disobeyed god by making a golden idol |
| Samson | strength came through his long hair, considered wise, made foolish descicions because of his wife. |
| Philistines | a union of warriors that would fight very often against the Israelites. Fough for land and had very good weapons in doing so |
| Ruth | woman of Moab, which is the great-grandmother of David and ancestress of Jesus; she is also the daughter of Naomi. |
| List books of deuteronomic history | Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings |
| Monarchy | a series of Kings; a type of government. The Consecutive Kings were from Saul, to King David and then Solomon. |
| Ark of the covenant | The portable shrine built to hold the tablets on which Moses wrote the Law. |
| Judah | The name of the southern kingdom after the splitting of the monarchy, It included the territory originally belonging to just two of the 12 tribes, Judah and Benjamin. |
| Israel | the name of the northern kingdom |
| Establishment religion | the religion that tends to support the power of the ruling class over the common people. In the case of the Israelite monarchy, it joined Yahweh worship with the worship of other Canaanite gods |
| Samuel | was the last judge, a prophet who was born to a barren mother. He warned Israel about the eventual, long-term consequences of having a king. He anointed King Saul. |
| Saul | The first king of Israel, anointed by Samuel. never able to fully unite the twelve tribes and organize them into a recognizable nation. |
| David | king of the united kingdom of Israel from 1009 to 969 B.C. He conquered the Transjordanian states, gaining control of the major trade routes linking Egypt and Mesopotamia. One of his descendants were Jesus. |
| Solomon | David's and Bathsheba's son, the last king of the united monarchy. renowned for his wisdom as well as for his wealth and his many large building projects. Built: the palace and temple..etc. |
| Bathseba | David's wife and she was also mother of Solomon. |
| Jezebel | Canaanite princess, married to Ahab, one of the kings of the northern kingdom. orchestrated the murder of Naboth in order to gain his property for her husband. |
| Naboth | an Israelite peasant that was sent to be murdered by the princess, Jezebel because Naboth had property that Ahab, Jezebel's husband wanted. |
| Philistines | a union of warriors that would fight very often against the Israelites. Fought for lnad |
| Goliath | a strong philistine who was killed by king david using a slingshot and then had his head cut off. |
| Jeroboam | the first king of the Northern Israelite Kingdom after the revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam who made the United kingdoms end. |
| Assyrian Empire | conquered the northen kingdom then sent its ruling class into exile in 722 |
| Hezekiah | ahzah's son. King of the southern kingdom of Judah. escaped Assyrian wrath and was allowed to stay on the throne by actually aligning with the Assyrians. |
| Babylonia | ancient region which its capital was the city of Babylon. |
| Nebuchadnazzar | a King of the Babylonian empire who reigned from 605 to 562 B.C. He conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and also sent Jews into exile. |
| Zedekiah | last king of Judah before the destruction of the kingdom by Babylon. |
| Jonah | prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel during the 8th century B.C. He was swallowed by a fish. |
| Baal | Canaanite god of fertility, associated with storms and rain. Worshipped by the Israelites. Most looked up to by the Canaanites |
| Ugarit | ancient city of the Canaanites which was discovered in 1928. Writings were found there wich helped people learn more about the Canaanites |
| Nabi | the Hebrew word translated as prophet |
| Oracle | a brief, poetic declaration preceded by the messenger. a message from god |
| Harlotry | worship of Canaanite gods along with Yahweh, and the act of a woman being unfaithful to her husband using exual behavior. Jezebal was describes as this for being unfaithful to her husband Ahab. |
| mark of the prophet | 1. Receive a call from God and leave former life a. Heard voices b. Had dreams c. Received inspiration 2. Spoke messages that were unpopular with establishment 3. Warn people to repent for their sins |
| Isaiah | thought he wasn't good enough to speak the word of God |
| Hosea | Born and prophesised in the northern kingdom during reign of jeroboam, Held hope for Israel, Married a known prostitue |
| Joel | prophet who cared for the poor |
| Amos | A shepherd and a farmer, Ministry takes place during the rule of jeroboam, Collected by prophets disciples, Came from working class, Strongest of all the prophets on issues of social justice, Message one of judgement |
| Elijah | his name means "The Lord is my God" father of the prophets. Lived in the Northern kingdom. Spiritual was a spiritual warrior in a struggle that sometimes became violent met a woman who she and her son were starving and reminded her that God will feed her and her son |
| Elisha | famous disciple of Elijah. Carries on the work of Elijah, God contines his work thru his servants, Set the stage for the prophetic books, Social justce and religious devotion to yahweh |
| Amos | A shepherd and a farmer, Ministry takes place during the rule of jeroboam, Collected by prophets disciples, Came from working class, Strongest of all the prophets on issues of social justice, Message one of judgement |
| Hosea | Born and prophesised in the northern kingdom during reign of jeroboam, Held hope for Israel, Married a known prostitue |
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