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13 Cards in this Set
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Tetragrammaton |
Greek for "four-lettered name" ex: YHWH |
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Torah |
The study of the whole gamut of Jewish tradition or to some aspect there-of. Refers to the 5 books of Moses |
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Nevi'im |
The second main division of the Hebrew Bible |
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Ketuv'im |
The last of the three main divisions of the Hebrew bible |
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TaNaK |
A relatively modern name for the Hebrew Bible; the acronym is composed of the first letters of the three parts of the hebrew bible. |
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Canon |
A final authoritative collection of books |
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Deuterocanonical |
Pertains to writings regarded as Scripture by some but not contained in the Hebrew Bible. |
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Septuagint |
The Greek translation of the Old Testament, consisting of the books of the Hebrew Bible and some deuterocanonical books, now known as the apocrypha. |
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Apocrypha |
It is used in a technical sense to refer to certain Jewish books written in the Hellenistic Roman Period |
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Fertile Crescent |
The well watered and fertile arc of land where early civilizations developed and prospered. |
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Mesopotamia |
The land between the rivers, where civilization began |
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Pentateuch |
Refers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible traditionally attributed to Moses that together comprise the Torah. |
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Pseudepigrapha |
Intertestamental apocryphal writings purporting to be by somebody who is not the author such as Adam, Eve, Abraham, etc. |
