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51 Cards in this Set
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Why Study the Bible? |
Western Civilization: Literature, Music, Quotes, Pop culture, Art, History Contemporary Issues: Homosexuality, women's roles, environment |
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Origins of the Name |
Byblos, place famous for making papyrus, biblos = greek for book/papyrus = little books |
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Canon |
A defined set of books, authoritative, for a community of faith in teaching, preaching & conduct |
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Different collections of canons |
Alexandria, Egypt - Palestine - essenes at qumran |
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Tanakh |
Jewish Bible |
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Septuagint |
Greek Bible, Translation from Hebrew to greek, more books, different order |
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Vulgate |
Latin Bible |
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Apocryphal Books |
Protestants called the books found in Septuagint but not in Hebrew bible this |
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Deuterocanonical Books |
Catholics called the books found originally in Septuagint but not in Hebrew bible this |
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Revelation |
god makes known himself and his will to humanity through words and deeds |
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Inspiration |
the influence of the holy spirit on a human author such that what is written is gods word |
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inerrancy |
scripture teaches faithfully and without error that truth which god put into writing for the sake of salvation -with no error, there may be errors in matters of history, science, and geography, but not in faith and salvation |
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Codices / Codex |
leather bound books preserved in jars in Egypt found in 1945 |
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Dead Sea Scrolls (1947) |
found in caves and were a breakthrough because they were 1000 years older than anything else previously found/recovered. They found it out because of the pottery jars in the community were similar |
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Language of the text |
no punctuation, no vowels, no capital letters, which causes confusion - different words that are emphasised / without the comma create different meanings and interpretations |
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In Dei Verbum, What did god reveal? |
himself and his will |
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in Dei Verbum how did god reveal |
through words and deeds, for christians through christ |
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In Dei Verbum, For what purpose did god reveal |
so that humanity can share gods divine life |
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In Dei Verbum, Why did god reveal |
Out of an abundance of love |
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Dictation |
the holy spirit dictates every word to the author who faithfully writes it down |
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Influence |
the holy spirit communicated the idea and the authors express it in their own words |
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Exegesis |
the critical interpretation of a text (follows a method) |
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Historical-Critical Method |
Text Criticism, Literary Criticism, Form Criticism, Redaction Criticism |
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Synthetic Parallelism |
states the same thought in successive lines |
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Antithetic Parallelism |
balance is achieved through opposite or contrasting thoughts |
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"in the beginning..." |
God wasn't around before heaven and earths creation |
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"When god began creating..." |
asserts that earth already existed and god decided one day to create the earth as we know it and the heavens |
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Creatio ex nihilo |
Creation out of nothing, the belief that there is no matter already in existence when god is created |
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Imago Dei |
The image of god, there is a likeness between god and humanity that allows a relationship. Every human person is created in the divine image |
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The creator in Part I Genesis |
God |
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The creator in Part II Genesis |
Lord |
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The activity of god in part 1 genesis |
he created |
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the activity of god in part 2 genesis |
he made/formed |
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the order he created in part 1 genesis |
light, heaven/water, dry land, sun/moon/stars, birds/fish, animals, humans (building a house during the day, make the ceilings, plumbing, flooring, electricity, decorations in the ceiling and then animals and move in) |
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the order he made in part 2 genesis |
earth, heavens, waters, the man, gardens/trees, rivers, all animals, every bird, the woman (Here is a ball, and a thing above the ball and below it, heres a man, here is the background of the set (gardens and trees), here are some animal friends to keep him company, here are all these birds because theyre pretty, here is a woman) |
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what do they call the humans part 1 genesis |
male/female |
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what do they call the humans part 2 genesis |
man/woman |
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how does god create them part 1 genesis |
from command |
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how does god create them part 2 genesis |
from dust |
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what is the job of the humans part 1 genesis |
have dominion of the earth |
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what is the job of the humans part 2 genesis |
to care for the earth |
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how is the creator part 1 genesis |
distant |
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how is the creator part 2 genesis |
hands on |
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what is the overall ending part 1 genesis |
story of the sabbath |
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what is the ending of part 2 genesis |
marriage |
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prelapsarian |
life before sin/before the fall, adam and eve are open w god and comfortable in their own skin and others, and care for the garden |
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Postlapsarian |
life after sin, adam and eve hide from god, they are ashamed of their bodies and blame others, the soil is cursed |
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Documentary hypothesis |
postulated multiple stories for the pentateuch, doublets (lord vs god), vocab (male/man), divine name, style and pt of view |
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Original sin |
the first sin that affects humans from their origins, all human beings are born into a world tainted by sin and themselves are then prone to it. disobedience of god was the first sin |
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obedience of noah |
noah did all that god commanded and ended up basically being the new adam and eve |
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tower of babel ziggurats (stepped temples) |
ziggurats (stepped temples) made to get closer to god in a flat land like mesopotamia |