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Canon
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*Official list of books considered genuine, worthy to be used in teaching and liturgy, and binding in doctrine and morals. Standard of measure by which a religious community judges certain writings to be authoritative, usually of divine origin. Hebrew Bible: canon of Judaism. Christianity accepts both Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament.
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Septuagint
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(LXX) Greeke edition of Hebrew Bible traditionally attributed to seventy or seventy-two Palestinian scholars druing Ptolemy II's reign.
Later additions to the Septuagint deleted from Hebrew Bible/Masoretic Text. Included in Christian Scriptures as Apocrypha |
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Masoretic Text
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(MT) Standard text of the Hebrew Bible as given final form by Masoretes in 7th through 9th Century B.C.
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Apocrypha
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"hidden books"
Noncanonical or deuterocanonical literature, especially 14 books in Greek Septuagint and later editions of Vulgate; not in MT or Hebrew Bible. Also a body of Christian works that parallel the New Testament canon. |
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Deuterocanon
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14 books in Greek Septuagint adn later editions of Vulgate. Not included in Hebrew Bible or most Protestant Old Testaments
Roman Catholics and others use them as a second canon. |
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Tanak
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Modern name for the Hebrew Bible. Acronym consisting of three consonants that represent the three major division of the Bible.
1) Torah (law) 2) Nevi'im (Prophets) 3) Kethuvim (Writings) |
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Israel
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Name given Jacob by angel in Transjordan and Yahweh at Bethel. "May God rule"
Israelite nation descended from 12 sons of Jacob; covenant people chosen at Sinai Northern kingdom as opposed to southern state of Judah druing period of divided monarchies. |
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Testament
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Latin: "covenant"
Two main divisions of the Bible: Old Testament (canonical Hebrew Scriptures) adn New Testament (Christian-Greek Scriptures) |
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Yahweh
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Sacred name for Israel's God represented in the canonical Hebrew Bible by four consonants of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH).
Interpretation: Hebrew verb "to be" or "he causes to be"--maker of events and shaper of history |
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Bible
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"little books"
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Pentateuch
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From Greek word meaning "five scrolls"
Denotes 1st 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Torah) |
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Scribes
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Professional copyists who recorded commercial, royal, and religious texts and served as clerks, secretaries, adn archivists at Israel's royal court and Temple.
After Jews' return from exile, professional teachers preserved and interpreted the Mosaic Torah. |
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Pentateuch
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From Greek word meaning "five scrolls"
Denotes 1st 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Torah) |
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Textual Criticism
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Comparison and analysis of ancient manuscripts to discover copyists' errors adn to reconstruct the true/original form of the document
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Scribes
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Professional copyists who recorded commercial, royal, and religious texts and served as clerks, secretaries, adn archivists at Israel's royal court and Temple.
After Jews' return from exile, professional teachers preserved and interpreted the Mosaic Torah. |
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Fundamentalism
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N. American Protestant movement, beginning at turn of 20th C that affirmed literal factuality of all biblical statements adn rejected post-Enlightenment questioning of biblical infallibility
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Pseudonymity
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Textual Criticism
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Comparison and analysis of ancient manuscripts to discover copyists' errors adn to reconstruct the true/original form of the document
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Fundamentalism
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N. American Protestant movement, beginning at turn of 20th C that affirmed literal factuality of all biblical statements adn rejected post-Enlightenment questioning of biblical infallibility
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Historical Criticism
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Analyzing a written work by taking into consideratino its time and place of composition in order to comprehend the events, dates, personages, adn other factual elements mentioned in or influencing the text.
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Source Criticism
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Analysis of a biblical document to discover the sources, wirrten or oral, that the authors incorporated into it. ex) Study of Pentateuch-->4 mean literar unis J,E, D, P were blended in its composition
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Pseudonymity
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Historical Criticism
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Analyzing a written work by taking into consideratino its time and place of composition in order to comprehend the events, dates, personages, adn other factual elements mentioned in or influencing the text.
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Form Criticism
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Redation Criticism
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Literary Criticism
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Literary analysis that attempts to isolate and define literary types, the sources behind them, the stages of composition from oral to written form with their characteristic rhetorical featuers, and the stages and degree of redaction (editing) of a text
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Source Criticism
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Analysis of a biblical document to discover the sources, wirrten or oral, that the authors incorporated into it. ex) Study of Pentateuch-->4 mean literar unis J,E, D, P were blended in its composition
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Form Criticism
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Redation Criticism
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Literary Criticism
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Literary analysis that attempts to isolate and define literary types, the sources behind them, the stages of composition from oral to written form with their characteristic rhetorical featuers, and the stages and degree of redaction (editing) of a text
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