Chapter 2 Glossary Terms - Jesus Christ: God's Revelation to the World

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Jerome's 4th Century of Bible from Greek to Latin

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Latin Vulgate

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A theologian of the early centuries of the Church whose teaching made a mark on the Church

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Church Father

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The official public worship of the Church

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The Liturgy

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One who proclaims the Good News in word and deed

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An Evangelist

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The most important symbol of the Jewish faith; a physical manifestation of God on earth.

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Ark of the Covenant

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A Benedictine prayer tradition of "sacred reading" of the scriptures

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Lectio Divina

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People trained to write before literacy was widespread

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Scribes

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

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exegesis

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Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by 70 scholars

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The Septuagint

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The Literal Sense

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The meaning conveyed by the words of the Scripture

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A term for a non-Jew

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a Gentile

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The official list of all the books of the Bible

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The Canon

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A worldwide conference of bishops called by Pope John XXIII in 1962

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The Second Vatican Council

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Prayer of the Church at specific times of the day; the Divine Office

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Liturgy of the Hours

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Old Testament manuscripts discovered in 1947 in a cave in Qumran

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

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A type of writing that has a particular form

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Literary genre

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A foundational event for Hebrew people - Moses leads them out of Egypt

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The Exodus

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The process of sharing important stories by word of mouth from generation to generation

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Oral Tradition

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