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Chapter 1: The New Testament as Christian Scripture

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disciple
A person who follows and learns from Jesus, or more specifically, one of Jesus's original twelve disciples.
resurrection
The act of being brought from death to life. In the New Testament, Jesus's resurrection from the dead assures Christians that they too will be resurrected from the dead into eternal life upon Jesus's return (1 Cor. 15).
Allegory, allegorical
A literary device by which one understands certain aspects of a story symbolically.
canon
A word meaning "rule" or "standard" that delineates authoritative texts. In Christianity, "canon" refers to the sixty-six books of the Bible as separate, distinct books worthy of heeding closely as uniquely authoritative.
Trinity
The term used of God in the doctrine that God is both one and three, existing as one God in three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
covenant
A relationship between two parties that has spelled-out expectations.
sacrifice
The offering of a crop or animal to express worship toward a god.
gentile
A person who is not Jewish.
gospel
A word meaning "good news," referring to the good news of the message of Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection. It also refers to each of the four first books of the New Testament (the Gospels) and their genre. The genre of the Gospels grew out of the Greek and Latin genre of bios into its own genre, setting Jesus's teachings and actions into a broader, comprehensive story of the whole world, both human and divine, a story that points forward to its completion.
Scripture(s)
A term used by Jewish people in both pre-Christian times and early Christianity to describe the Jewish sacred writings, before the New Testament was finalized. Now used by many Christians to refer to the Christian Bible as a whole.
Jewish Scriptures
A term used today by Jewish people and many scholars to describe their canonical sacred writings.
Old Testament
The term used by Christians starting in the early third century to refer to the sacred Jewish writings in comparison with the writings of the apostles.
New Testament
The term used by Christians starting in the early third century to refer to the writings of the apostles, deriving from the promise of the new covenant that Christians understand to be fulfilled in Jesus.
apostle
A word meaning "messenger" or "one who is sent," normally used as a title for certain early church leaders, especially Jesus's twelve disciples and Paul.
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