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the process by which a set of books came to be viewed as having sacred authority
Canonization
The Greek translation of the books of the Tanak and the other works written in Greek but not found in the Hebrew Bible (70 elders were the translators).
Septuagint
The "original" texts of the Bible.
Autographs
We are dependent on early translations from the original languages into other ancient languages called:
versions
Manuscripts written in capital Greek letters (called ________) constitute the basic and longer known body of evidence for the NT.
uncials
The most important uncials are known as:
Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, Codex Alexandrinus
Manuscripts written in a small, cursive style are called:
miniscules
The general term for god in Hebrew and other similar languages is _____ and the traditions of the Tanak use the plural form _____ as designation for the God of Israel.
El, Elohim
The proper name for the deity used in the Hebrew Bible (written without vowels=problem)
YHWH
Wherever the YHWH appeared int eh Scripture, the Hebrew word _____ (Lord) was pronounced in its place.
Adonai
A type of NT interpretation of the OT in which OT persons, events, or things are seen as having counterparts int eh new age that began (i.e. Christ is called the New, Second, or Last Adam).
Typology
Jewish scholars (rabbis) interpreted the Tanak for the purpose of ____, which means to understand the meaning of a text as it relates to observance of authoritative custom), OR ______, which means to amplify the text for devotional and inspiration purposes).
Halakah, Haggadah
Higher criticism or historical criticism are other names for this movement that burst court during the 19th century, in which interpreters took into account the original historical situation during which biblical authors wrote.
Critical movement
Analysis of the literary world of the Bible influenced by literary analysis, focusing on "close reading" of biblical texts, emphasizing the various literary styles and techniques present in them.
New criticism or formalism
The study with the purpose of understanding the meanings of the literature itself--the world within the text.
Intrinsic
The type of modern criticism that seeks to describe carefully the literary qualities that make each text unique.
New or formal criticism
Stories about actions of divine beings
myths
An account regarded as historical, but not verifiable, and focused on human characters. They are combined into cycles to tell a connected story.
Legend
Legends about origins
Etiological legends
Legends about memorable leaders
hero legends
Developed accounts of events and people of the past
Historical narratives
narratives in which a sustained plot is developed through a series of closely connected scenes, focusing more on an individual story
Short story
An address by an individual that speaks of God and the divine involvement with, and purposes for, people.
Sermon
The list of names purporting to record the pedigree of an individual or the relationship among families, clans, tribes, or nations.
Genealogies
These give accounts of past events an purposes, simply listing the events or persons with no attempt to highlight underlying causes or meanings (in Kings).
Chronicles
Long poems that do not seems to have been sung, but rather reflect on various themes.
Meditations
Utterances or pronouncements from an authoritative source about what is going to happen in the near or distance future, introduced by a formula.
Oracles
The two most dominant literary forms of the NT
gospel and letter
The principal convention of biblical poetry has come to be known as parallelism, where there are two or three line units where the second (and third) line(s) balance the sentiments of the first by completing them.
Parallelism
The dwelling place of the dead
Sheol
Developed accounts of events and people of the past
Historical narratives
narratives in which a sustained plot is developed through a series of closely connected scenes, focusing more on an individual story
Short story
An address by an individual that speaks of God and the divine involvement with, and purposes for, people.
Sermon
The list of names purporting to record the pedigree of an individual or the relationship among families, clans, tribes, or nations.
Genealogies
These give accounts of past events an purposes, simply listing the events or persons with no attempt to highlight underlying causes or meanings (in Kings).
Chronicles
Long poems that do not seems to have been sung, but rather reflect on various themes.
Meditations
Utterances or pronouncements from an authoritative source about what is going to happen in the near or distance future, introduced by a formula.
Oracles
The two most dominant literary forms of the NT
gospel and letter
The principal convention of biblical poetry has come to be known as parallelism, where there are two or three line units where the second (and third) line(s) balance the sentiments of the first by completing them.
Parallelism
The dwelling place of the dead
Sheol
This criticism examines work in terms of their place win the collection deemed authoritative in the Jewish an Christian communities.
Canonical criticism
A branch of historical archaeology concerned with the study of the Biblical world ((centers in Israel).
Biblical archaeology
This criticism arges the the meaning of a test is not a given, residing int h text itself or in its historical context, but in the unique interaction between a particle reader in a particular situation with the text.
Reader-response criticism
Those who practices this type of interpretation reemphasizes the ambiguity in both texts and the interpretation of texts, arguing the traders actually create their own texts when encountering literature.
Deconstruction
the idea that any "text" is actually a constantly chaining web of many texts; readers create theiro wn sense of meaning to interpret the meaning of the Bible
intertextuality
This criticism interprets the meaning of the Bible from the context of one or more oppressed groups in the world today.
Liberation criticism
The perspective that the Bible must be rejected as authoritative because of its negative portrayal of women.
Rejectionist
The perspective that the Bible cannot by nature by oppressive to women.
Loyalist
The perspective that the positive attitude towards women is evident in the Bible, bu the crucial role of women has been obscured by the ancient patriarchy, so you must be willing to read between the lines.
Revisionist
The perspective that there is a glorification of the feminine in biblical symbolism.
Sublimationist
This criticism examines work in terms of their place win the collection deemed authoritative in the Jewish an Christian communities.
Canonical criticism
A branch of historical archaeology concerned with the study of the Biblical world ((centers in Israel).
Biblical archaeology
This criticism arges the the meaning of a test is not a given, residing int h text itself or in its historical context, but in the unique interaction between a particle reader in a particular situation with the text.
Reader-response criticism
Those who practices this type of interpretation reemphasizes the ambiguity in both texts and the interpretation of texts, arguing the traders actually create their own texts when encountering literature.
Deconstruction
the idea that any "text" is actually a constantly chaining web of many texts; readers create theiro wn sense of meaning to interpret the meaning of the Bible
intertextuality
This criticism interprets the meaning of the Bible from the context of one or more oppressed groups in the world today.
Liberation criticism
The perspective that the Bible must be rejected as authoritative because of its negative portrayal of women.
Rejectionist
The perspective that the Bible cannot by nature by oppressive to women.
Loyalist
The perspective that the positive attitude towards women is evident in the Bible, bu the crucial role of women has been obscured by the ancient patriarchy, so you must be willing to read between the lines.
Revisionist
The perspective that there is a glorification of the feminine in biblical symbolism.
Sublimationist
The perspective that emphasizes the biblical proclamation of God's liberation of the oppressed people includes freeing women from patriarchal dominion.
Liberationist
The Bible has what three primary uses today?
Theological and devotional and ethical
The story of Moses is made up of what to themes? (Gen 12)
Promise (Abrahamic Covenant) and Journey (story of promise is told as a series of journeys)
An everlasting, unconditional, promise
Covenant
The structure of the story of Jacob; a story within a story.
Envelope structure (his story balances Abraham's)
The biblical word "Hebrew" comes form a root meaning to: "____"
cross over
This covenant is not an unconditional promise by God to the people, but a conditional agreement. Through obedience, the descendants of Abraham will be blessed, and through then, others will be blessed.
Sinai Covenant
An unconditional command or prohibition (law)
Apodictic or absolute law
A law in which the demanded reparation that is the same as the action (eye for eye, tooth for tooth).
Talion
Ten Commandments is also called the _____.
Decalogue
The 10 Commandments is followed immediately by a collection of mostly casuistic laws, known as the ____.
Covenant Code or Book of the Covenant
The position of the Former Prophets that is evident in Deuteronomy that obedience leads to blessing and disobedience leads to disaster for the nation or individuals.
Deuteronomistic History
Anthropologists observe that states tend to rise when an area becomes ___ or impacted.
circumscribed
The Philistines attempted to annex Israelite holding and they had the means to fit, so their activity created _____. The choice for the Israelites was submit or resist.
Social circumscription
An intermediate development, unlike a state-level monarchy. The type of government of Saul's Kingdom, where the State emerged in stages.
Chiefdom
The promise of the Lord that there will always be a Davidic king. Introduces a new tension.
Davidic Covenant
A story in which the complex flow of events is a result of human decision and actions, without direct antecedence by the Lord.
Secular tale (Samuel)