Chapters 1 & 2 Vocab

The extra section of Protestant Bibles where the additional Old Testament books from Catholic Bibles are placed.

People trained to write using the earliest forms of writing before literacy was widespread.

A term for non-Jews

A short story that illustrates a moral or spiritual lesson through comparison

The process of sharing stories and other important pieces of information by word of mouth.

The prayer of the Church at specific times of day that uses readings from Scripture, particularly the psalms, and hymns.

St. Jerome’s 4th century AD. translation of the Bible from Greek to Latin, the common language of the day.

The meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation

The official public worship of the Church including the sacraments and the Divine Office.

A type of writing that has a particular form, style, or content.

Old Testament manuscripts discovered in 1947 with other writings in a cave near the Dead Sea.

The process used by scholars to discover the literal meaning of the biblical text.

The deeper meaning of scripture in light of Salvation that include the allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses

This approach focuses on how the biblical books have been organized and edited over time.

A conference of bishops called by St. John XXIII from 1962-1965 to consider the Church in the modern world.

A 2nd century BC. Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made at Alexandria, Egypt by 70 scholars.

This approach is used to determine how each biblicalbook took shape and identifies its literary genre.

An official list of inspired books of the Bible. Catholics list 46 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New.

This approach determines the historical and cultural context of the biblical text to better understand it.

This approach attempts to find out where biblical material came from.

A sign and source of grace instituted by Jesus Christ and entrusted to the Church by which divine life is bestowed on us

A Benedictine prayer tradition of “sacred reading”; its intent is to meet God through the Scriptures.

The most important symbol of the Jewish faith that served as a physical manifestation of God on earth.

When Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt and slavery