Freshman Religion Chapter 2

The official public worship of the church

St. Jerome's fourth-century translation of the Bible from Greek into the common language

The most important symbol of the Jewish faith

A word that means "hidden." The term describes the extra section of Protestant Bibles.

One who proclaims in word and deed the good news of Jesus Christ

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

Meaning "placing two things side by side in order to compare them"

A conference of bishops from around the world called by St. John XXIII

A sign and source of grace instituted by Jesus Christ and entrusted to the Church

A term for non-Jews

A Greek term for the first five books of the bible

Old Testament manuscripts discovered in 1947 in a cave near the Dead sea

The meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis

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

The official list of inspired books of the Bible.

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