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29 Cards in this Set
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Canon |
Reed or rod used for measuring or keeping straight. "Normative" or "standard. |
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Tanakh |
Hebrew canon of Scripture, acronym based on Hebrew titles for Torah, Nevi'im, & Ketuvim |
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Tell |
Mounds built up over the centuries as communities were destroyed and new ones were built on the same site. |
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Septuagint |
Greek translations of the Hebrew Scriptures. |
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Apocrypha |
Deuterocanonical ("second canon"). Additional Septuagint writings. |
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Textual criticism |
The process by which scholars try to reconstruct the earliest possible text using the extant manuscripts. |
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Masoretic text |
Textual criticism begins with a "base text" to which all other manuscripts are compared. Masoretes worked from 500 to 1000 CE to standardize & preserve the Hebrew text. |
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Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia |
An edition of Masoretic text of Hebrew Bible in Stuttgart. |
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Codex |
Ancient book form. |
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Codex Sinaiticus |
Ancient handwritten hand copy of Greek Bible, contained both Testaments, portions of epistle of Barnabas & Shepherd of Hermas. |
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Papyri |
Thin-like paper material from papyrus plant. |
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Papyrus 52 |
The oldest manuscript of New Testament. |
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Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed.)/UBS Greek New Tetament (4th ed.) |
Original Greek language version of New Testament. |
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Jerome |
Translated Old & New Testament into Latin. |
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Latin Vulgate |
Translation of Hebrew Bible/New Testament into Latin by Jerome. |
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Martin Luther |
Translated Bible into German. |
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John Wycliffe |
Translated Latin Vulgate into English. |
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William Tyndale |
Using printing press, Tyndale produced the first printed English Bible, known as Tyndale Bible. |
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Dynamic equivalence |
Focusing on the function of the original language & attempts to "recreate" that reading experience in the target language. |
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Allegory |
Text that have hidden meanings & thus great symbolic value for readers. |
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Hermeneutics |
The art of interpretation. |
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Source criticism |
Attempt to determine the "author" of the text; what is the source material. |
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Form criticism |
The analysis of types of literature & classification of them according to forms such as hymns, laments, & sagas. Then the setting & intent of the form can be determined. |
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Tradition history |
Process in terms of traditions or memories coming together. |
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Redaction criticism |
The study of the compilation or editing of a text; the why and how of the editing of a text. |
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Canonical criticism |
The determination of when, why, and by whom the layers of Scripture were considered authoritative & to what special purposes. |
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Narrative criticism |
Study that pays close attention to the way features such as character & characterization, plot development, point of view, & language shape meaning in the text. |
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Rhetorical criticism |
The identification of any type of recurrent pattern, such as repetition or word plays, which contributes to the persuasive nature of the text. |
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Reader response criticism |
Searching for meaning through leaving the historical circumstances of the text in favor of the circumstances of the reader and his or her values, beliefs, etc. |