Chapters 3 & 4 Quiz - Religion 1

What languages was the Bible originally written in?

How many books make up the Canon of Sacred Scripture?

What does the Bible, "biblia" in Latin, mean?

What category of the spiritual sense examines the text's eternal significance?

How many books are in the New Testament?

How many books are in the Old Testament?

The two step process for biblical exegesis as laid out by Vatican II is:

The coherence of individual doctrines with the whole of Revelation is called:

The 4 steps that occured over time leading to the development of the Bible are:

Who do the Magisterium work with to help in the work of guiding the interpretation of the Bible through exegesis?

The Magisterium is the living teaching office of the Church and is a reliable and credible guide.

One the most important discoveries of ancient written texts was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

How many Gospels are in the New Testament?

The Israelite families held their oral tradition sacred, and as such passed it on and protected it.

All of written tradition is recorded in the Canon of Sacred Scripture.

Greek word meaning "5 books"

What category of the spiritual sense examines the characters, events as representing a hidden spiritual truth?

The Bible contains only the books that are deemed to be:

St. Jerome translated the Hebrew Bible. His translation is known as the:

Some Protestant Bibles include seven books in a separate section called the: