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

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

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

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

The Literal Sense

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

A term for a non-Jew

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

Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by 70 scholars

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

A type of writing that has a particular form

One who proclaims the Good News in word and deed

The official public worship of the Church

People trained to write before literacy was widespread

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

The official list of all the books of the Bible

Old Testament manuscripts discovered in 1947 in a cave in Qumran

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

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